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of my Will according to how much creatures will want to take
from Its goods.

But the first degrees will be spurs and paths in order to reach
the last one. For you, then, who must make It known, there is
all the necessity to live in the last degree."

Second Reading Monday Wk 6 Easter Season Divine
Office

From the treatise On the Trinity by Didymus of Alexandria

The Holy Spirit renews us in Baptism

The Holy Spirit renews us in baptism through his godhead,
which he shares with the Father and the Son. Finding us in a
state of deformity, the Spirit restores our original beauty and
fills us with his grace, leaving no room for anything unworthy of

our love. The Spirit frees us from sin and death, and changes
us from the earthly men we were, men of dust and ashes, into
spiritual men, sharers in the divine glory, sons and heirs of God

the Father who bear a likeness to the Son and are his co-heirs
and brothers, destined to reign with him and to share his glory.
In place of earth the Spirit reopens heaven to us and gladly

admits us into paradise, giving us even now greater honour
than the angels, and by the holy waters of baptism
extinguishing the unquenchable fires of hell.

We men are conceived twice: to the human body we owe our
first conception, to the divine Spirit, our second. John says: To

all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power
to become children of God. These were born not by human
generation, not by the desire of the flesh, not by the will of man,

but of God. All who believed in Christ, he says, received power
to become children of God, that is, of the Holy Spirit, and to
gain kinship with God. To show that their parent was God the
Holy Spirit, he adds these words of Christ: I give you this

solemn warning, that without being born of water and the Spirit,
no one can enter the kingdom of God.

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