All Are Called To Holiness

The entire people of God Proclaims the Gospel



Everyone in the Church, precisely because they are members, receive and thereby share in the common vocation to holiness. The call to holiness is rooted in Baptism and proposed anew in the other Sacraments, principally in the Eucharist. Since Christians are reclothed in Christ Jesus and refreshed by his Spirit, they are "holy". They therefore have the ability to manifest this holiness and the responsibility to bear witness to it in all that they do. The apostle Paul never tires of admonishing all Christians to live "as is fitting among saints" (Eph 5:3).

- from Christifideles Laici, 16. Pope Saint John Paul II, 1988.

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