Our consideration of the theme of transformation in Christ has now come to an end. In its course, we have measured the full meaning of the vocation that resounds in the words, sequere me. We have envisioned the countenance of “the new man who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of Him that created him.” We have caught a glimpse of the new supernatural beauty, that reflection of the holiness of the God-Man, which fills the “prisoners of Christ” and radiates from their souls to light up the world of mankind: “That you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9).

We have surveyed the attitudes in which the fundamental principle of dying with Christ and rising to life with Him is unfolded. We have discussed the nature of the great assent which is the precondition, on our part, of our transformation in Christ: the assent that is to pervade, shape, and illumine our whole life until the coming of the hour that sounds the call, “Behold the bridegroom cometh: go ye forth to meet him” (Matt. 25:6); the assent sublimely expressed in the Psalmist’s prayer: “Uphold me according to. Thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation” (Ps. 118:116).