Sanctification

Sanctification: As Simple and as Difficult as Everyday Love

Sanctification:  As Simple and as Difficult as Everyday Love

As a child, I enjoyed reading stories of saints.  I was particularly impressed with St. Therese of Lisieux, (d. 1897) also known as “the Little Flower.”  Her way was the “little way” of making small sacrifices and offering up the small hurts, trials and insults of life which allow us almost constant opportunities to grow in sanctification!  Nearly a hundred years after her death was the death of Mother Theresa of Calcutta (d. 1997).  Mother Theresa, who will be declared a saint this September by Pope Francis, also found her way in simply “doing small things with great love.”  Catholics and non-Catholics alike were drawn to these women who lived out their faith simply, but heroically and without compromise...