Baptism: Pledge of eternal life

March 23

 We have a double life: a natural that we get from Adam by carnal generation, and, therefore, is an earthly life, corruptible, loving us and full of lust, the other supernatural, that we get from Jesus through baptism and, therefore, is a spiritual, heavenly obradora virtue. By baptism is in us a real transformation: we die to sin and graft us in Christ Jesus so that we live in his own life. Through Baptism we receive sanctifying grace that gives us life, all heavenly we become children of God, Jesus' brothers and heirs of heaven.
Now if by baptism the Christian dies his first life and raises the second, it is the duty of Christians to seek the things above, not caring at all about the things of this earth. This insinuates himself the Apostle Paul to the Colossians: "So - does this great saint - as they have been raised with Christ, seek those things above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God."
Yes, the resurrected Christian baptism in Jesus is elevated to a supernatural life, takes the beautiful glorious hope of sitting on the heavenly throne.What dignity! His vocation requires you wish continually the blessed homeland, regarded as a pilgrim in the land of exile, the Christian vocation, say, requires not set your heart on things of this earthly world, all the worry, all the effort of a good Christian , who lives according to his vocation, is led to seek the eternal goods, should get a way of judging things here below to estimate and appreciate only those that help you achieve eternal blessings, and have, moreover, by vile all those that do not serve for this purpose.
(November 16, 1914, to Raffaelina Cerase - Letters. II, p. 226)