Gaudete et Exsultate by Pope Francis

Author:Pope Francis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Published: 2018-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

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Signs of Holiness in Today’s World

110. Within the framework of holiness offered by the Beatitudes and Matthew 25:31–46, I would like to mention a few signs or spiritual attitudes that, in my opinion, are necessary if we are to understand the way of life to which the Lord calls us. I will not pause to explain the means of sanctification already known to us: the various methods of prayer, the inestimable sacraments of the Eucharist and Reconciliation, the offering of personal sacrifices, different forms of devotion, spiritual direction, and many others as well. Here I will speak only of certain aspects of the call to holiness that I hope will prove especially meaningful.

111. The signs I wish to highlight are not the sum total of a model of holiness, but they are five great expressions of love for God and neighbor that I consider of particular importance in the light of certain dangers and limitations present in today’s culture. There we see a sense of anxiety, sometimes violent, that distracts and debilitates; negativity and sullenness; the self-content bred by consumerism; individualism and all those forms of er-satz spirituality — having nothing to do with God — that dominate the current religious marketplace.

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