Seeking holiness

     We so often act as though holiness is something very complicated and out of our reach – like there’s a ‘hidden formula’ to follow – and so we spend our time searching for it, in the hope that when it’s found – just maybe we’ll get it right -- and then we’ll be holy!

     Our good God did not make our sanctification an impossible feat – but placed His Holy Spirit within our souls to direct our every thought, word, and deed . . . but we must be attentive to His voice and then surrender to His promptings, so He may form Jesus in us.


     To hear the Holy Spirit clearly, we must be in the state of grace so we do not mistake His direction to us. We must familiarize ourselves with the life of Jesus in Sacred Scripture, so we will know how to imitate His ways and radiate Christ to our world. We must also form ourselves, as best we can, with the teachings of the Church, so that we are not misled through our own self-will and ignorance. We must be then, willing to die, to our own thoughts, words, and actions when they do not reflect the life of Christ.

     Although perfection is not easy and will take a great deal of effort on our part – along with an immense amount of grace from God – we can rest assured that it is not complicated and out of our reach. .  . and it is what God truly wants for us! We will find that ‘hidden formula’ when we are attentive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit and respond. We will then receive peace within our hearts and be on the path to holiness, which we are seeking.