And all the Apostles soon discovered that in becoming like Christ they became the sort of people they were meant to be.  The reason for this was that Jesus is God the Son who, in the words of the Creed, came down from heaven and was made man – not a man but man; not so much one of us as one with us.

He took our human nature in its fullness, and that is why each of us can see his or her best self in him.  This is particularly evident in the saints, in those who have approximated in character to him, whether they lived in the Roman Empire, in the Middle Ages or in our own time; whether they have been kings or paupers, learned or unlearned: men and women, boys and girls, old and young, all have discovered that as the character of Christ was formed in them, so they found their best selves in him.

Yet in becoming like Christ they did not become like one another except in their utter goodness which was not of this world.  Christ’s personality was not substituted for theirs but theirs was raised to the level of his.