Last Tuesday at XLT we discussed the idea of Holiness. Are you Holy? What is Holiness and how can we obtain it?
Holiness is often described as abstract, separated from society. Names like Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, and many saints are used to ascribe ‘holy’ behavior. But if Holiness is sooo abstract, why should we even try to obtain it? Why should the common person such as you and I seek holiness if it is reserved for saints, priests and clergy, and people who are extreme like Mother Teresa?
If this is how you feel, I submit you have the wrong ideology of what is holy. The Truth is that holiness is the call of every Christian. Holiness simply describes something present with the Truth, present with God, full of His Spirit.
Each XLT (2nd and 4th Tuesdays) we have Adoration and kneel before the most Glorious thing in the universe; Jesus Christ. In the Eucharist we find the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ truly present for us. Yet we are often caught up looking at bread because that is what our eyes see.
We are challenged as Christians, as Catholics, to look beyond the simplicity of what our eyes see and to see what our souls can see. Present in every person, created in the image and likeness of God, is a sliver of God’s glory. David Crowder writes, “you make everything Glorious and I am yours… What does that make me?”
Today, don’t think of holiness as some abstract life unattainable. Rather strive to live a Christ like life rooted in the Sacraments, founded in the one Truth from the Father, and guided by the Holy Spirit. Even you can be holy. All we have to do is put our souls into it.
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