I never quite understood the emphasis on personal holiness. There didn't seem to be enough "doing good things for others" about it. But for most of us, that is the only way to witness to the error of relativism. If we can quietly live to the best of our ability the truth and love of Jesus with the help of God's grace, we give the Holy Spirit the space to work and draw others to God. Orthodoxy can't seem like a club but as God's plan for our our happiness in Him. This takes soooo much patience but we are never sure how much sin (both the effect of the sins of others against them and their own sins against others) has damaged an individual soul's ability to see clearly, without fear. Most of us must be very gentle even though that often goes against the grain.
Vandy+Catholic is the campus Catholic community at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. We are college students living our lives focused on the person of Jesus Christ in the Holy Trinity, united through the Church and Her Sacraments, and devoted to the universal call to holiness.
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I never quite understood the
emphasis on personal holiness.
There didn't seem to be enough
"doing good things for others"
about it. But for most of us,
that is the only way to witness
to the error of relativism. If
we can quietly live to the best
of our ability the truth and love of Jesus with the help of God's grace, we give the Holy Spirit
the space to work and draw others
to God. Orthodoxy can't seem like
a club but as God's plan for our
our happiness in Him.
This takes soooo much patience but
we are never sure how much sin (both the effect of the sins of
others against them and their own
sins against others) has damaged
an individual soul's ability to
see clearly, without fear. Most
of us must be very gentle even
though that often goes against
the grain.
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