Life and Holiness

... if we do not become saints it is because we do not avail ourselves of his gift.

St. Chrysostom: “Both lay people and monks have to lead a very positive and constructive Christian life of virtue. It is not sufficient for the tree to remain alive, it must also bear fruit. “It is not enough to leave Egypt, one must also travel to the promised Land”

We are the Temples…but we have to struggle to ensure that God always receives form us what we owe him by right.

Sin is the refusal of spiritual life, the rejection of the inner order and peace that come from our union with the divine will. In a word, sin is the refusal of God’s will and of his love. It is not only a refusal to “do” this or that thing willed by God, or a determination to do what he forbids. It is more radically a refusal to be what we are, a rejection of our mysterious, contingent, spiritual reality hidden in the very mystery of god. Sin is our refusal to be what we were created to be-sons of God, images of God. Ultimately sin, seeming to be an assertion of freedom, is a flight from the freedom and the responsibility of divine sonship.