“Am I doing at this moment what I ought to be doing?”
I’ve been asking myself with this question for hundreds of time then,
after a seminar took that question to stunt my nerves in brain, strummed my
vocal chords making a sound redundant to what God has always wanted the mankind
to become. “God wishes us all to become saints” as what had St. Alphonsus Maria
De Ligoure had hit a chord for his fellow faithful before.
If that was it, all of us must do things in accord to his will. Let us
not end up like those elderly people who had just started to be good in their
lives only in their twilight years. Just because they wanted to be saved, just
because they repent from all of their sins, they would now go to church every
day, attending all the possible masses that will be celebrated. From a vicious
youth being they would now turn out to be an angelic old being having a veil as
their hope-to-be halo, devoted to perhaps half of the number of saints. Who
knows that by those long novenas they recite, somehow their illness will be
healed and their humiliating deeds will be atoned.
How about us, the youth? Would we like to wait for bad lucks to
be happened to our lives? How long will we wait then for ourselves to be
transformed?
Oct. 21, 2012 stunned the hearts of every Filipino all over the world and indeed let it to gloriously throbbed having been pumped by the thought of the joyous elevation of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, a native of Cebu, to the rank of Sainthood. Saint Pedro Calungsod is the second saint of the Philippines next to St. Lorenzo Ruiz of Manila. Proud and happy are we having these two saints, recognized by the church, for we shared the same nationality with them; being a pure blooded Filipinos in mind and in soul.
Individuals think it’s difficult to become saint and yes indeed. It even takes years and decades for you to be canonized, ensuring for your worthiness to be called as such. But, to tell you, in this case, it is not like those of the modern politics for it chooses not by colour or race, may you be a king or a beggar, slave or an average person you can be a saint. This simply proves that it is open for all those ordinary people who do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
On the face of it, people misunderstand of what really a saint is. In fact, we often even exclaim “How a sinner like me could and would become such a saint?” If we do allow ourselves to be trampled with this wrong conception then we can really hardly achieve the desire of God for us to be perfect. In the bible, Jesus said to his listeners “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5:48. The servant of God- Frank Duff in his book “Can we be saints?” that also inspires this article, was right when he said that every person that is born is called to be a Saint. If there is verve inside of your heart you will be surely given sufficient help to carry crosses that abides in your way to sainthood.
In this era of numerous world disorientations, we must then make a move for a change for ourselves and eventually for the conversion of this generation. Let us try to sanctify our diminutive duties. Even your effort to trash a candy plastic could start for a great change. Maybe by mortification of your wants like watching folly television shows, eating your favourite food, playing computer games and even the thought of making your life unchaste would then conspire to the angels in heaven singing alleluia to the lord. Everything will be fine, if we’ll make it fine. Let’s imitate virtues that ought to be imitated for. Let us just always remember that we can be saints, if we want.
