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 | | Pope Pius V, our saintly predecessor, fully conscious of his obligation which is now ours, labored with pastoral indefatigability to publish first the Roman Breviary, then the Roman Missal--both having been worked out with much labor and zealous care--so that there might be, God willing, a uniform manner of chanting and praying the Church's liturgy. |
 | | We must consider here St. Paul's teaching on the "new creation." "If anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation; the former things have passed away, behold all things are made new."[20] By the coming and sacrifice of Christ, creation, all of it, animate and inanimate, has been consecrated anew and transfigured. |
 | | Paul speaks of baptism as a mystical dying of the old man through participation in the death of Christ, in order to become a new creation through a mystical participation in His resurrection. |
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