At the beginning of Christianity, the members of the Church were also called saints. In his First Letter to the Corinthians, St Paul addresses those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (I Cor 1: 2). Indeed, Christians are already saints because Baptism unites them to Jesus and to His Paschal Mystery, but at the same time they must become so by conforming themselves every more closely to Him. Sometimes, people think that holiness is a privileged condition reserved for the few elect. Actually, becoming holy is every Christians task, indeed, we could say, every persons! The Apostle writes that God has always blessed us and has chosen us in Christ that we should be holy and blameless before Him... in love (Eph 1: 3-5). All human beings are therefore called to holiness, which ultimately consists in living as children of God, in that likeness with Him in accordance with which they were created. All human beings are children of God and all must become what they are by means of the demanding process of freedom. God invites everyone to belong to His holy people. The Way is Christ, the Son, the Holy One of God: no one comes to the Father but by me [Jesus] (cf. Jn 14: 6). ~ Pope Benedict XVI
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:17:30 +0000
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