The “call to holiness” is, I must confess, a call-ing that requires us to make a real effort to understand the real meaning and purpose of life. First and foremost. the “call to holiness” requires us to come to a reasonable, sensible, intelligent understanding of Who God Is. Over the years I have found that people have a variety of real impressions of Who God Is. These impressions are not always positive. we humans seem to have a tendency to lay a “lot of trips” on God, blaming Him for a wide variety of things, especially those life events that we judge to be negative.

I don’t seem to find, however, the same tendency in humans to see God as the “Giver of All Good Things and Benefits”. So many presume that the good things that happen to them are the result of their own efforts. The bad things are a result of God responding to something that He doesn’t like about in the way we chose to live. This tendency, I truly believe, is absolutely incorrect and unreasonable. It is, however, a tendency which,

I have found, is difficult to change in people. What is very typical of humans is that we always need to find someone to blame when life doesn’t turn out the way we think it should. We always find a scapegoat. The “call to holiness” is a call to genuine and truthful living, not blaming God for the challenges that we encounter in our lives.

The “call to holiness” is also a call to recognize that God is with us in all of our human struggles and challenges. He has revealed to us, through Jesus and the Church, that He has created us to be the Temples of His Holy Spirit. Therefore He is with us in all of the challenges of life. Although this cannot be proven with concrete data, it is something that we are called to believe. This belief will sustain us and help us as we meet the challenges of life.