To participate in the “power of the resurrection” by sharing in the divine life of Jesus is not an isolated happening for St. Paul of the Cross, a happening offered to the person only once or at some special times, for instance, at Christmas.  As soon as a believer reaches the “interiority of confidence”, exactly at that moment he is risen to this new life in Christ.  This “rebirth” or “being risen” is therefore, not so much an occurrence of an act but a state that endures.  This is made very clear in a Christmas Eve letter in which the founder states the following: ~taken from Chapter 5 of The Mysticism of the Passion in St. Paul of the Cross by Martin Bialas, CP