The vocation of all to holiness

Our Lord wants us to be his instruments to remind people in a practical way – firstly by the way we live – that the call to holiness really is universal, and not restricted to just a few people, or to a particular state in life; nor is it generally conditional on abandoning the world. Any job, any profession, can be a path to holiness and a means for apostolate.

This, my children, is reliable doctrine, a light from God. It is a teaching which can be understood only with difficulty by those who cannot conceive of Christian perfection and contemplation outside the religious state; but which is based on Sacred Scripture and on the Church’s Tradition, and constantly confirmed by our lived experience in Opus Dei, despite our human shortcomings.