Not long ago Pope Francis wrote a beautiful letter to the church, Gaudete Exsultate (Rejoice and Exult), about holiness. And he said, I don’t want to write a treatise on holiness or theological statement on it. He said, I want to write this letter about holiness to awaken in you the desire for holiness because, he said, the world is so full of that false holiness, the false happiness of consumerism, for example, which leads to unhappiness, to sadness, to depression, to boredom. Nothing is more boring ultimately than consumerism. And in that letter on holiness he tells us God wants us to be saints, every one of us, and he speaks about a practical way of holiness for our lives. He reminds us it’s not necessary to live a perfect life.
Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 2: Holyness by Laurence Freeman OSB
