There’s a wonderful letter the Pope wrote recently on holiness, and he has some very profound insights. He speaks about holiness as something quite ordinary – that this is not just about the saints, impossible lives of these perfect people that we’re used to. There’s that kind of holiness, but the real holiness he speaks about is ordinary holiness, the everyday holiness of ordinary people who are not perfect. None of us are perfect. The other thing he says is really necessary is that we do have the experience of a deeper interiority in silence, in places, in times of prayer. But this deep, more contemplative interiority is one part of holiness. And the other part is how we live, how we come to the aid of our neighbours, how we raise our children and how we give ourselves to each other.
Ordinary holiness
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