Splendor of the Saints: How They Dazzle the World and Shape History by Fr. Aloysius Roche

Author:Fr. Aloysius Roche [Roche, Fr. Aloysius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2016-01-04T06:00:00+00:00

We must be grateful, profoundly grateful, for everything that is extreme in the lives of God’s servants. “The inimitable things in the saints,” said St. Teresa, “often do us the most good.” We are not thinking merely of that uneasy yet pleasurable sensation of wading deeper and deeper in the tide of life that their stupendous heroism provides, but of something much more important. A general absence of heroism would constitute a serious problem for Christianity.

Our critics are very fond of saying that in the interests of the average and ordinary Christian our religion has been shorn of its outstanding qualities. They say it has been so accommodated that it has lost its power to inspire. They judge our religion entirely by its lower and even lowest levels, and naturally conclude that little in the way of uplift is to be looked for in our quarter.

This is, of course, just one-sidedness and superficiality—a failure to realize that there are other levels besides what is called “the bourgeois level.” Heroic sanctity has never failed in the Church—not for a single day. The supply of ardent, generous, and exceptional Christians is inexhaustible.

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