11. The purpose of your life
Frapiero, August 9, 1973
“How pleased I am that you are here with Y. You must love each other very much, like two little brothers.
My two sons, whom I love so much, and whom I give as a gift, one to the other! You must have great love for one another, you must rejoice and suffer together, for the fulfilment of my plans...
I have chosen you for the Movement of my Priests: you must live for this; you must pray, work, suffer, you must become holy: this is the wonderful purpose, O son, that I am giving to your life! (…)
How I love you, how tenderly I look out for you; how I bless you from my heart!”
My Thoughts:
The greatest trickery that Satan ever portrayed on man was to convince us that holiness was for only a select few. For priests, nuns and maybe a few weird lay folks. However this is not God’s plan, God wants everyone to be part of His Kingdom and it starts right here and now. This need and desire for Him is part of our blueprint, as our Creator, He knows how we are to be the best version of ourselves. Read a previous article I wrote —>The Master Carpenter
To be holy, is what it means to be a saint. When you see the word ‘holy’… read it as ‘wholy…. to be entirely His, full of His grace. Sin takes away from that. Think of it as a dimmer on a light switch. Electricity is there waiting and you have the capacity for full power, but every sin you commit turns the dimmer down a little…some venial sins maybe so small that you hardly detect their effect, but many of them together and they can throw you into quite a bit of darkness. This is where the power of the Sacrament of Confession comes in, it restores you to full power. 😀
Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2013 “All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity.”65 All are called to holiness: “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”66
In order to reach this perfection the faithful should use the strength dealt out to them by Christ’s gift, so that . . . doing the will of the Father in everything, they may wholeheartedly devote themselves to the glory of God and to the service of their neighbor. Thus the holiness of the People of God will grow in fruitful abundance, as is clearly shown in the history of the Church through the lives of so many saints.67