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“Christian love is particularly demanding because it springs from Christ’s total love for us: that love that claims us, welcomes us, embraces us, sustains us, to the point of tormenting us since it forces each one to live no longer for himself, closed into his own selfishness, but for him ‘who for their sake died and was raised’ (2 Cor 5:15). ~Pope Benedict XVI, taken from his book, Saint Paul