“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.”
CS Lewis
Midst the unceasing tumult of life in this Vail of Tears it is all too easy to forget that our goal is to achieve sainthood for ourselves and to aid as many people as we can in their journeys to Heaven. This was at the core of what Christ taught and what the Church has always taught. Today we recall those who succeeded, those few Saints recognized by the Church and the myriads of Saints known but to God and their few loved ones. It can seem like an overwhelmingly arduous task, but it is not. God has provided as many paths to Him as there are people. Humility and love are needed, along with determination and the wisdom to never presume of our salvation or to despair of it. May we all meet one day in the Kingdom of Love Eternal, more than victors in Christ who shows us the way to Him.
“God has provided as many paths to Him as there are people” Some people say that there as many religions as there are people. Religion is a person’s response to the gift of Faith from the one true God, The Infinite Supreme Sovereign Being in whose image and likeness man is made.
St. Theresa, the Little Flower said: “I will spend my heaven doing good upon the face of do the same.the earth.” With God’s help each of us can do the same.
Implicit infinity is reached through our acknowledgement of God.
correction This computer writes on its own.
“I will spend my heaven doing good upon the face of the earth.”
Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eUzdTF3P2M
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Yes. Sainthood should be our goal. Each must find the way. When we fall ruck up and move Heavenward.
Each of us must make white her/his robe in the blood of the Lamb.
I spent most of my life thinking I must not die in sin. That is not all of it.
I had a sad thought at Mass last night. The priest was talking about the inspiration of the living saints in our lives, perhaps at work, and I realized that I didn’t work with anyone I thought of in those terms. I don’t have many community and political leaders I look up to, and by the general comments on this thread I don’t think a lot of us are inspired by Church leadership. Add onto that the general frustration of post-covid low Mass attendance. So I’m curious, people: who are the living saints that inspire you? Names not required, but family? friends? parish? world?
Family and friends yes. My late secretary of 30 years still inspires me and warms my heart seven years after her untimely death. Some of the people I have met in the pro-life cause over the years. People who have met illness and death with grace and courage. My mother and father and my late son.
Figures in public life? I have generally found that the more I know about them the less I like them.
It is easier to identify these people after they’ve passed. But that takes them away as daily examples.