By one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin. Thus says Holy Scripture, and the record of every human being reads us the same awful and humbling fact. There are two threads which tie together the whole race of mankind; man's sin and God's mercy, which, through Christ, becomes to all who receive it, salvation to eternal life. No one who reads his Bible carefully can shut his eyes to the statements which meet him in it, of the reality, extent, guilt, and danger of sin. Blessed are they who seeing this in the light of Christ, of his Gospel, and his Church, fix the eye of their souls on Him who came into our world, and died on the cross that we might live through Him. Such can say, I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, my Lord. Such can lay hold of the promise, There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh. The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus delivers them from the law of sin and death. Far more quickening to the soul than the vital heat of the prophet Elisha to the dead body of the Shunamite's child, is the grace of the Holy Spirit. Let our constant prayer be
Come, Holy Ghost, Creator come,
From Thy bright heavenly throne;
Come, take possession of our souls,
And make them all Thy own.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp