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“Be holy, because I am holy” (LV 19, 2), tells us the Lord. Why does God make us a similar command? It is that we are his children, and, if the father is holy, the children must be too. Only saints who can hope for the happiness of going to enjoy the presence of God which is holiness itself. Indeed, being a Christian, and living in sin is a monstrous contradiction. A Christian is called to be a saint. Yes, this is the truth that the Church keeps repeating to us, and in order to engrave it in our hearts, it shows us an infinitely holy God, sanctifying an infinite multitude of saints who seem to say to us: “Remember, Christians, that you are intended to see God and to own it; But you will have this happiness only as long as you have retraced in you, during your mortal life, its image, its perfections, and particularly its holiness, without which no one will see it. But, if the holiness of God seems above our strength, consider these blessed souls, this multitude of creatures of all ages, all sex and any condition, which have been subject to the same miseries as us, exposed to the same Dangers, subject to the same sins, attacked by the same enemies, surrounded by the same obstacles. What they were able to do, we can also, we have no excuse to dispense with working on our salvation, that is to say to become holy. (…) Let us conclude, saying that if we want, we can be holy, because the good Lord will never refuse us his grace to help us become. He is our father, our Savior and our friend. He ardently sighs to see us delivered from the evils of life. He wants to fill us with all kinds of goods, after having already given us, in this world, immense consolations, vanguards of those of heaven, whom I wish you.

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For the purpose of God whereby He made man not to perish but to live for ever, stands immovable. And when His goodness sees in us even the very smallest spark of good will shining forth, which He Himself has struck as it were out of the hard flints of our hearts, He fans and fosters it and nurses it with His breath, as He wills all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4). He says, it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish (Mt 18:14). Again it says: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalls, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish. “I will not the death of a sinner, but that he should turn from his way and live.” (Ezekiel 33:11). If He wills not that one of His little ones should perish, how can we imagine without grievous blasphemy that He does not generally will all men, but only some instead of all to be saved? Those then who perish, perish against His will, as He testifies against each one of them day by day: Turn from your evil ways, and why will you die, O house of Israel? (Ez 33:11) And again: How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not; and: Wherefore is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? They have hardened their faces and refused to return (Jr 8,5 ). The grace of Christ then is at hand every day, which, while it wills all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, calls all without any exception, saying: “Come unto Me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. “(Matthew 11:28)
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