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Our talk today focuses on the offer of grace, renewed in Christ.

So we had it in our creation by a gift.

We talked about original justice yesterday.

But Christ brings us grace, even when our parents had lost it and when we had lost it through personal sin.

So today we're going to do the following.

First, we're going to reread the account of the rich young man, this time from Matthew, and we'll come to that very soon.

And then we're going to reconsider the main lesson of this encounter with Christ

through the lens of evangelical poverty.

All right.

It's apropos.

It's not just because a religious is teaching you this class, and, you know, I've chosen

evangelical poverty in a radical way.

Aquinas discusses this in relation to this passage.

And then finally, we're going to move towards a reflection on the unique participation

that Christians can have in divine goodness, thanks to the grace of Christ and what that means

for us.

So first of all, let's take a look at our Bible passages here.

On your handout, I've given you both Matthew and Mark's renditions as promised.

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