Friday, November 1 : Saint John-Mary Vianney

“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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