Hovey suggests that the exhortation to “lose your life” is ecclesially and eucharistically embodied: “Individual bodies that feed on the body of Christ through incorporation and participation no longer belong to individual disciples; they belong to the church. This is a loss only insofar as the fear that death names continues to be a basis for making decisions about how to live . . . . trying to preserve the body [or individuality] inevitably means being cut off from the community of the most desicive body . . . . The disciple’s life is lost through participation in the broken bread of the cross, the fate of the martyr-church.”
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