Finding everlasting life by dying to self seems impossible in a culture that values comfort, ease, and personal satisfaction. But Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross to give us a freedom that sin and death can never take away, as John Okpara — a seminarian at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania — shares with Inside CatholicPhilly.com.

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