This Sunday our Neophytes discuss Our Call to Holiness. Holiness can be ours, we have only to desire it. With that thought, we may need to be reminded that Holy ≠ Perfect. The word, ‘holiness’, has at its root ‘separateness’, as in, ‘set apart’ for God. We aren’t holy because of anything we have done or because we earned it. Keep in mind that our external actions are powered by our inner thoughts. If we want holiness, that desire to be set apart, we must fill our thoughts with holiness, and ponder on its beauty; because when we desire holiness, and encourage it in our life, we will find it showing in our everyday living and being. Our Saints are models of this choice, this way of living. We are all called to be “saints in the making”.
If we look, we can find things that stand in the way of becoming holy. We must discover whatever it is, and seek to remove it from our lives. Jesus said it would be difficult and many would not seek “the narrow way”. “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.” (Matthew 7:13-14)
We need only ask and the Holy Spirit will help us if we desire holiness.
The Seven Virtues will also be part of the Sunday discussion. Cardinal Virtues “govern our actions, order our passions, and guide our conduct” (CCC 1804). We know these as
The Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy will be shared as part of the session.