Living and dying with Christ

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So in reading Romans this morning it came to me: What are some examples of how one Dies with Christ? Or conversely Lives with Christ

Getting back into daily readings has helped me rekindle my faith but these are phrases that have always I guess made me curious what do they mean for different ppl
 
Is that Romans 6: 3-11? That’s the Epistle for Baptism & the Paschal Vigil in the Byzantine Tradition.
 
To me, it mainly means living with faith and in hope of eternal life, as opposed to practical atheism, which consists in living for one’s own interests alone and living only for earthly things. Others may have a different take on it.
 
That’s what I thought. Here’s the DRV w/ footnotes:

[3] Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death? [4] For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. [5] For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

[6] Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer. [7] For he that is dead is justified from sin. [8] Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ: [9] Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him. [10] For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:

[6] “Our old man”: Our corrupt state, subject to sin and concupiscence, coming to us from Adam, is called our old man, as our state, reformed in and by Christ, is called the new man.

[6] “Body of sin”: The vices and sins, which then ruled in us, are named the body of sin.

[11] So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
To answer your question, living with Christ is living in the state of sanctifying grace, the Divine Life of God. A person in mortal sin is spiritually dead. Father talked in his homily today about physical & spiritual death (today’s Gospel: Lk. 7: 11-16).

Also, if you look at the signature of a bishop, they usually have a cross before their name e.g. +Borys (our new archbishop). A layperson gets a cross before their name only after death e.g. +Eugene (my dad).

So a bishop should consider himself as “…dead to sin, but alive unto God…” (v. 11), since he is the example for his flock in his Eparchy/diocese.
 
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