LORD JESUS, MAY I IMITATE YOU IN ALL THAT I DO! Holiness consists in identifying ourselves with Our Lord Jesus Christ with the help of the Holy Spirit and our daily correspondence to live the virtues Our Lord lived and taught during His Life on earth. As St. Josemaria wrote: ” in intentions, may Jesus…
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TOP 10 IDEAS OF THE APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION, “GAUDETE ET EXULTATE”, ON THE CALL TO HOLINESS IN TODAY’S WORLD.
TOP 10 IDEAS OF THE APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION, “GAUDETE ET EXULTATE”, ON THE CALL TO HOLINESS IN TODAY’S WORLD. God wants you to be holy. Holiness is not only for a few but for everyone by virtue of the grace we received in Baptism which is called to reach its fullness. Holiness is made up…
HOLINESS IN LITTLE THINGS DONE OUT OF LOVE FOR GOD.
HOLINESS IN LITTLE THINGS DONE OUT OF LOVE FOR GOD. God calls us to holiness. But God counts on our free collaboration, hence, the necessity of wanting it for love of God above anything else, and fostering the hope that one day, with God’s help, and in spite of our errors, as long as we…
HOLY, NOT EERIE! NOVEMBER, A CALL TO HOLINESS.
NOVEMBER, A CALL TO HOLINESS. The month of November, aside from being the month dedicated to offer suffrages for the faithful departed, and for the holy souls in purgatory, has a more transcendent significance. It is not only the month when we are reminded of our earthly life’s fleeting state, the reality of death, of…
WHAT IS THE FIRST STEP TO HOLINESS?
THE FIRST STEP TO HOLINESS? TO WANT IT! “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love….
FOSTER THE HOPE OF BEING A SAINT.
FOSTER THE HOPE OF BEING A SAINT Dear brethren in Christ, below you have a quote from St. Josemaria which would help all of us in our struggle to respond to God’s call to holiness. God himself desires that we be saints. In spite of our defects and frequent falls, God continues to help and…
MORTIFICATION: WHAT IS IT, WHY IT IS NECESSARY IN CHRISTIAN LIFE, AND WHAT ARE ITS FRUITS.
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BE HOLY, FOR I, YOUR GOD, AM HOLY (Lev 20:26, 1 Pet 1:16)
BE HOLY, FOR I, YOUR GOD, AM HOLY (Lev 20:26, 1 Pet 1:16) God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, material and secular activities of human life. He waits for us every day, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the…
THE HOPE OF BEING SAINTS: HOLINESS IS NOT JUST FOR A FEW…”THIS IS GOD’S WILL, YOUR SANCTIFICATION (1Thes 4:3).”
WITH GOD’S GRACE, WE MUST WANT TO BECOME HOLY… For without ardently wanting to reach the goal to which God calls us, one will not put the means which leads to that goal.
THE CHURCH NEEDS….
THE CHURCH NEEDS…. Yes…saints! Men and women living their lives, seeking holiness in their ordinary activities. This idea was expressed by St. Josemaria, way back the 1930s when he wrote in the the Way, n. 310: “A secret, an open secret: these world crises are crises of saints. God wants a handful of men ‘of…
MAY CHRIST BE OUR LIFE. MAY WE ALLOW HIM TO WORK IN US. Summary vid + full text.
MAY CHRIST BE OUR LIFE. MAY WE ALLOW HIS GRACE TO WORK IN US. Dear brethren in Christ, below you have encouraging and consoling words taken from Pope Benedict XVI’s Address to the Youth during the prayer vigil on Sept. 24, 2011 in Freiburg. Words which would do us a lot of good if we…
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