Universal Call to Holiness

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Jesus has given us a very heavy, really overwhelming task.

It’s the task of holiness, of being saints, and He assigned us that task when He said “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48).

And the Church doubles-down on that obligation. This is from the Second Vatican Council document on the Church: “All the faithful, whatever their condition or state, are called to that perfect holiness whereby the Father Himself is perfect.” (Lumen Gentium 11).

Got that? All the faithful. Everybody. In any condition or state of life.

That means you. You are obliged to become perfectly holy.

You, as a disciple of Jesus, are obliged to become a saint – one who shares in the life of God, truly living as His sons and daughters – purified from all vice and living in the fullness of virtue and excellence!