On November 10, 2008 the members of the Fatima Shrine Bible Study under the direction of Father Peter M. Calabrese, CSRP began to study Chapter II of Saint Paul's Letter to the Philippians. Father Peter noted that St. Paul is being very rhetorical in his writing in the opening of Chapter II. St. Paul stressed the use of rhetorical language. St. Paul asks if there is an incentive in the virtue of love. St. Paul notes that encouragement in Christ opens us up to fellowship in the Spirit.
St. Paul wants us to complete his joy being in accord with Christ. St. Paul wants the Philippians to be unified and stresses unity in Chapter II. Father Peter noted that the centrality of Christ is a strong element of Saint Paul's Letter to the Philippians.
St. Paul wants the Church to be unified. Unity rooted in Christ is also rooted in the virtue of charity.
Father Peter noted that unity is very much a Zaccarian theme within the Barnabite Order.
Father Peter also reminded us that humility was considered to be the virtue of a slave in the time of Saint Paul.
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