Sanctity in Other Words: A Presentation for Beginners

"If personal holiness is thought of as being a name at the top of a list it is understood wrong. If it is thought of as something which merits a feast in the Church's calendar it is understood wrong....There is nothing 'superior, ' in the sense of being one up on everybody else, about it.

The way to think of sanctity is as something which, by being generous and faithful to grace, gives back to God the love which he has given to the soul."

While the glamorous and spectacular displays of virtue...