Because of Christ, Christian death has a positive Meaning: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." 574 "The saying is sure: if we have Died with him, we will also live with him. 575 What is Essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian has already "died with Christ" Sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ's Grace, physical death completes this "dying with Christ" and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act: