List of points

Jesus, our Lord and Model, growing up and living as one of us, reveals to us that human existence — your life — and its humdrum, ordinary business, have a meaning which is divine, which belongs to eternity.

Since all honest professions can and ought to be sanctified, no child of God has the right to say: I can’t do apostolate.

I often feel like shouting in the ears of so many men and women in offices and shops, in the world of the media and in the law courts, in schools, on the factory floor, in mines and on farms, and telling them that, with the backing of an interior life and by means of the Communion of Saints, they ought to be bringing God into all these different environments, according to that teaching of the Apostle: “Glorify God with your life and carry him always with you. by making your bodies the shrines of his presence.”