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The Daily Life of

Pro Sanctity Members

We encourage all Pro Sanctity members to continue developing holiness in daily life:

Accept your call to holiness (Mt. 5.48). Rather than saying, "Who, me? A saint? You have got to be kidding!" Believe instead that the Lord calls us to holiness and offers us the ways! Pray the Novena for Holiness. It will help.

Develop a personal relationship with Jesus through a daily life of prayer.

Foster your sacramental life by taking advantage of daily Eucharist and frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Be faithful, attentive and lovingly open to the teaching of the Pope and the Hierarchy.

Be generous with your time and talent in sharing the call to holiness: in your family, neighborhood, parish, and, take advantage of the help the Pro Sanctity Movement offers.

Invoke Mary, our Mother,to help you live and spread God's call to holiness.

-Teresa Monaghen

(Mike Montag Continued from page 1)

built for us a civilization of love, hope, reconciliation and justice.

Greg Gaddie has been hard at work, making many great changes to my web site at www.corsanctum.com/montagart It can also be accessed from a link on the Pro-Sanctity web address.

I thank the Pro Sanctity Family for their confidence and support, and hope you will find comfort and inspiration in my newest works.

Our theme this year is centered on the phrase: "Vita Quotidiana Esperienze di Santita, which we can translate as: Holiness in daily life." Since we belong to the Movement, we know that this is not only a possibility, but we have seen it in our lived reality. Each day we have the opportunity to grow anew in the love and presence of God. Each day God showers gifts and blessings on us, not because we have earned them, but because God is so good.

As we know , God is good all the time, not only when we are aware of our blessings. Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, at the beginning of the new millennium, has spoken of the "high standard of Christian life." Each of us can daily say to ourselves: "Christ calls me to live a holy life."

The Lord knows that daily life is filled with trials and diffculties in remaining faithful to Him. He knows that it is not a matter of blending into the world and being just like everyone else, and not a matter of accepting the standards of the world. We have been blessed with a call to follow Christ who is the one that the world longs for and that every heart seeks! The same Christ walks with us on our journeys, sometimes so hidden, sometimes so obvious. And it is the same Christ who is with us in our sorrows, sufferings, loneliness, trials and defeats as well as in our joys, hopes, friendships, celebrations and victories! He is with us in our prayer, our sacrifice, our integrity, our truthfulness. These are our daily building blocks for the great Cathedral of Holiness that the Lord wants to build in our lives. This union with Christ in daily life is itself an experience of holiness. When Christ tells us, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect"(Mt. 5:4), he is not thinking that you will find holiness in some far away galaxy. He calls us to a life of sanctity in this life: in our poverty, our humility and our simplicity. And there, united with him and with one another, we will learn once more that daily life is an experience of holiness.

-Rev. Andrew Vaccari--Brooklyn New York

Yours in Christ,

National Pro Sanctity Board

"There is no doubt that God wants our love. Not only that, He wants us to love in the same measure by which He loves us: to the maximum."

Bishop Giaquinta

A Maximum Response

God's love for us is apparent in everything we see around us everyday, from the wonders He has created in nature to the grace He gives us in our struggles through life. The fullness of God's love is revealed in His sacrificial offering of His own Son, Jesus, on the cross.

How do we respond when a friend offers even a minute part of themselves for our good? We feel gratitude and look forward to doing the same in return. Do we have the same regard for God's gifts to us, or do we act like they were something we deserve?

What more can we do to achieve a "maximum" response to God's love for us? What more can we change in our attitudes and our lives to grow closer to Him, and to help others on their paths to heaven? This isn't something that we have to do all at once. Even things as simple as turning off the TV to say some extra prayers, making the sign of the cross when passing a church, or supporting your local retreat center (in any way) can be a great start toward that maximum. Like everything else, it's a journey; but we have to take that first step.

(to be continued in future newsletters)

-Jen Gaddie and Stephen Tefft-Omaha, NE