Example of the first Christians

Those examples are enough to ensure that we never forget how we ought to carry out our apostolate with souls and in what spirit. Our greatest ambition has to be to live like Christ our Lord and like the first faithful, without any divisions of race, nation, language or opinion.

St Paul

We also have to teach all Catholics and all people the New Commandment I reminded you about earlier. I seem to hear St Paul crying out to the faithful of Corinth: divisus est Christus? Numquid Paulus crucifixus est pro vobis? aut in nomine Pauli baptizati estis? (1 Cor 1:13), is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul, so that you claim, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas”? (1 Cor 1:12).

Unity among all people

We are all God’s children and we are all redeemed by Christ: this is the deepest reason for unity among all people. No other title is needed. You don’t give other names to pure gold and pure silver. When the silver is silver and the gold is gold, we simply call them what they are, without any additions. If at times we do qualify the name with some other term, it is not good metal but a cheap imitation.