Are you a saint?

[water]

Some non-catholics call themselves saints, but they admit they are not holy yet! … hmm…how this could be?

 

[Della]

Non-Catholics who call themselves saints but know they aren’t are actually closer to the Catholic understanding than those who say they are holy. At least those who admit they aren’t holy don’t think they are personally holy because they know they are sinners and that they are accountable for their sins. Non-Catholics who claim to be personally holy believe they will not have to account for their sins because they made a one time commitment to Jesus, which erased all their sins: past, present, and future.

 

[valient_Lucy]

Some non-catholics call themselves saints, but they admit they are not holy yet! … hmm…how this could be?

Non-Catholics often use the term saints differently than Catholics. Frequently, a Non-Catholic uses the word saint to mean “a person in a state of grace,” (to use Catholic terminolgy) or a person who has accepted Christ (to use non-Catholic terminology), not "a person who has exhibited heroic virtue.

 

[puzzleannie]

not on your tintype
having spent time with tomorrow’s gospel in several CCD classes this week, I am pretty sure by those standards my sainthood will be long delayed by an extensive stay at Spa Purgatorio.

 

[valient_Lucy]

not on your tintype
having spent time with tomorrow’s gospel in several CCD classes this week, I am pretty sure by those standards my sainthood will be long delayed by an extensive stay at Spa Purgatorio.

You’ll have me for company.

 

[rwoehmke]

Actually I think that all baptized persons may be called saints with a small “s”. It is certainly found all over the place in Acts and in some of Paul’s letters where when he refers to “the saints”, he is speaking of Christians still living in this world. So I vote yes, it would not be improper to refer to one self as one of the saints. Some people might give you a strange look.