Day 8
Another great chapter! I’ve always loved the Leon Bloy quote that Kelly uses in this chapter: “The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.” St. Paul often reminds us that we are called to be saints.
I am reminded of a young boy who knew he was going to die. Everyone in his parish knew it and the family was open about it. Someone said to the boy, “Someday soon, you will be an angel.” To which the boy replied, “No, I will be a saint. Angels are something different.” That young boy knew his calling. He knew who and whose he was.
We are called to be saints.
Kelly rightly points out that there is a great commonality in those who are canonized as saints and devotion to the Eucharist seems to exist in all of them. I think particularly of Blessed Carlo Acutis (soon to be Saint Carlo Acutis), the first millennial saint. As a young boy, Carlo Acutis developed a love for the Eucharist. He went on to unite his computer skills with his love for the Eucharistic by cataloguing various Eucharistic miracles throughout the world and putting them on one website. Blessed Carlo Acutis died at the age of 15. He will be canonized this April.
I
loved the line in this reading: “It has been observed that people emulate the
five people they spend the most time with—for better or worse. Make Jesus one
of those five people.” Page 51 Great advice. Jesus is waiting to spend time
with you in adoration.
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