“…go on growing in the Grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ” (I Peter 3:18).
You hear a lot of singing and talking about saints in Church. What is a saint like, anyway?
A saint is a one hundred per cent, first rate human being. Nobody is born a saint. It’s something you have to grow into. A saint is not a hero all his or her life. He or she starts out just like all the rest of us: bad-tempered, enthusiastic, lazy, frightened. This is the kind of material God uses to make saints. Sometimes it’s a long process. But it’s a process God has already started on you and me. God intends to turn us all into saints. He is determined to make us all one hundred percent, first-rate human beings. All He asks from us is a little cooperation.
So when we sing and talk about saints in Church, we are not talking about some strange, angelic person…
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