On Each of Us Becoming Saints

"'Holiness is not something for the privileged few: God calls everyone, Love awaits all of us: everyone, no matter where he may be; everyone, no matter what his state in life, his profession or trade. For that ordinary everyday life, apparently unimportant, can be a means to holiness.' - St. Josemaria Escriva

"Almost five years ago, my mentor, who also happened to be my first year college Theology professor, told me something that would probably require a lifetime to fully understand. As we walked from our house after a visit, he gently thumped my head, saying, 'Remember, you will be a saint.'

"'A saint?' As a non-Catholic Christian at the time, someone who didn't even believe in saints, I just had to laugh. He was just trying to make me feel good about my struggles in school and in my personal life, I thought.

"For me, it was a joke, but it stayed with me and I never forgot it. Now as a Catholic, I see how it makes so much sense."

A recent Ignitum Today commentary offered a reflection on the call to holiness we have each received..

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Ignitum Today: Wait, what!? We can be saints? How? (11 DEC 18)