None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord.  St. Paul’s words in today’s second reading seem to fittingly follow this past Friday’s 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the sacrifices made by so many on that day and the sacrifices that continue to be lived because of that day. St. Paul teaches that our lives and our deaths have meaning when we live and die with the purpose of imitating Christ. Twenty-five years later, we are called not simply to remember those who died, but to live differently because we remember them.   While the first responders of that day are reminders of those who did not live for...