Saturday, March 5 : Saint Teresa of Calcutta

What is the perfect will of God where we are concerned? You must become holy. Holiness is the greatest gift God could give us since he created us for this. For someone who loves, to obey is more than a duty, it is the very secret of sanctity. As Saint Francis reminds us: each of us is what he is in God’s sight – neither more nor less. We are all called to become saints. There is nothing out of the ordinary about this call. We have all been created in God’s image that we might love and be loved. Jesus desires our perfection with inexpressible longing. “This is the will of God: your holiness” (1 Thes 4:3). His Sacred Heart is overflowing with an unquenchable desire to see us progressing towards holiness. We should renew daily our decision to stir ourselves up to greater fervor, as if it were a matter of the first day of our conversion, saying: “Lord my God, come to help me with my good resolutions in your holy service and grant me the grace on this very day to make a true beginning, for what I’ve done up till now is nothing.” We cannot be renewed if we haven’t got the humility to recognize what it is in us that needs it.

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