St. Mary's Catholic Church of Tomahawk, WI

Christmas is an Invitation to Sanctity

During Advent and Christmas very often we think and contemplate on the love of God. God out of His love gave His Only Begotten Son for our salvation and made all of us His children. Jesus Christ gives us the hope in all our troubles and difficulties. Let us invite him into our hearts.

Receiving Jesus into our hearts means listening to his message and living the same. Jesus invites every one of us to live his life by saying, “Be you therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Mt. 5:48). Jesus said this not just to the chosen disciples, but to everyone. So sanctity is everyone's vocation and all are called to it. Pope Pius XI says, “Let no one believe that sanctity belongs to a few chosen people. Everyone is included in it and no one is exempt from it”. Jesus is calling everyone to sanctity and has merited all the grace needed to attain it by his death and Resurrection. As we are in the season of Advent, let us concentrate on the sanctity of our lives that can be given as a gift to Jesus on Christmas Day.