Would you like a saint or a be saints? In the first reading of the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) states, "Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy."
The Lord spoke to Moses speech to the whole Israelite community and say to them: Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. You shall not hate in your heart against your brother bear. As your fellow deal, and you will because of him no guilt on you. To the children of your people you shall not take revenge and grudge them anything. You shall love your neighbor as yourself I am the Lord. (Lev 19,1-2.17-18)
The call of Yahweh to the Israelites to be holy, it means nothing more than : Because you belong to me, because you my chosen people are, ye shall also live accordingly, or you desecrated the holy name of God.
What the people of the Old Covenant has been said applies therefore also to us. The goal of every Christian life must be to grow more and more in holiness, because our God, Jesus Christ, is holy. As a practical guide to Christmas - to be used and that the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament. The focus is on the person of Jesus Christ and his Gospel. If we follow this we bear witness to Christ. Then we meet his lifestyle and sacred not only us but also himself.
from St. Francis de Sales is reported that one day he was asked what one had to be holy. He is said to have replied to the person: "Be careful dass sie die Türen sanft schließen“. Damit hat er in der Tat einen Aspekt des heilig gemäßes Lebens angesprochen. Denn Türen, die zugeschlagen, zugeknallt werden können eine jahrelange
Freundschaft mit einem Schlag zerstören. Zugeschlagene Türen sind wie eine unüberwindbare Mauer zwischen Menschen, aber auch zwischen Gott. Wenn wir davon sprechen, dass unsere Leben immer ärmer und kälter wird, dass es rauer zugeht im täglichen Leben , dann nicht zuletzt deshalb weil so manche Menschen die Tür zu Gott zugeschlagen haben. Sie wollen von ihm nichts mehr wissen. In Wirklichkeit wird ihr Leben aber dadurch viel ärmer. Achten wir also darauf, that we close the doors gently. But maybe that's not so easy to close the doors gently. Nevertheless, we should strive every day for it. Maybe we try putting a slammed door with great sensitivity to reopen. Let us try the wall that seems insurmountable to overcome. Then we are on track to become saints. Then we meet already made good the claim of God: "Be holy, for I am your God, holy."
fright but we otherwise at high standards. Holy one is not in a day. Christmas will last a lifetime. It's like the child learns to walk. First, it's all small steps and very wobbly on his feet. Often it falls. Must start over again. learns it gradually as it goes and if it is trained well out of it maybe once a great runner and at the end of the runway waiting for possibly a gold medal. So it is with the Holy - be.
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