Do all Catholics have to be Saints?Can Holiness & "normal life" coexist?

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Can everyday life and Holiness go together?
When I pray now,I feel I get further away from my family(who are very kind people) and this distresses me.
Is there a way that people can avoid extreme religion/saintness and live a moderate life,or would this be rejecting Gods will?
 
Why does praying make you feel distant towards your family? What do you mean by a normal life?
 
Holiness. We know that Jesus is utterly holy, and was during His 30 private years, revealing to us the sacredness of 'ordinary life" lived in love of God and love of others.

As you recall, Jesus declared there are two commandments that sum up all the commandments, love of God, love of our fellow humans, which, as he reveals, for instance, in Matthew 25, verses 31-46, must also be in practical acts of kindness.

God bless you

Kindly, Trishie
 
I think you need to reconsider what a saint is.

We are all called to be saints.

We are not all called to be religious sisters or brothers or priests. We are not all called to go to the mission fields. We are not all called to extraordinary heroism.

Our every day lives are our path to sainthood.
 
If your faith is pulling you apart from your family then one of two problems exists:
  1. You have a distorted understanding of the faith.
  2. Your family members are on a trajectory towards evil.
Being genuinely closer to God simply can’t make you less able to be in good relationship to the good people in your life. You’ve got one or the other of the above problems (I suppose some of both is possible too). Dig deeper and find out what the issue is.

One common mistake is to mistake piety for holiness. There are plenty of pious men in hell. It’s a poor substitute for holiness. It can be an excellent tool for cultivating holiness, but a terrible replacement for it.
 
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God’s Spirit is in my heart,
He has called me and set me apart.
This is what I have to do,
what I have to do.

He sent me to give the Good News to the poor,
Tell prisoners that they are prisoners no more,
Tell blind people that they can see,
And set the downtrodden free
And go tell everyone the news that the Kingdom of God has come,
And go tell everyone the news that the Kingdom of God has come.

Just as the Father sent me,
So I’m sending you out to be
My witnesses throughout the world,
The whole of the world.

Don’t worry what you have to say,
Don’t worry because on that day
God’s Spirit will speak in your heart,
Will speak in your heart.
 
St. Dismas. I’m not trying to say that we shouldn’t strive for holiness, just that the saints’ lives also weren’t perfect. You don’t have to spend every moment in prayer. Go interact with your family. Go have (nonsinful) fun. Who knows, you’ll probably leave a positive impression on those you interact with.
 
Read the life of St. Josemaria Escriva. He will teach you how to find your sanctification in your daily work and the fulfillment of your ordinary duties. That is what most of us are called to do. Or as Patrick Coffin say at the end of every Catholic Answers Life show, “Be a saint. What else is there?”!
 
1ke said:
I think you need to reconsider what a saint is.

We are all called to be saints.

We are not all called to be religious sisters or brothers or priests. We are not all called to go to the mission fields. We are not all called to extraordinary heroism.

Our every day lives are our path to sainthood.
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This. Look at The Little Flower. She spent her short adult life in a convent, only interacting with her fellow religious sisters and occasionally her family. Yet she led an incredibly holy life by doing little things with love.

Don’t strive for mediocre, or live your life hoping to hit Purgatory. We’re called to be the best version, the holiest version, of ourselves! Sainthood isn’t impossible, it’s completely possible and achievable in your own life. It could be how you interact with your family in hard times, or how you are able to be an example who don’t know what authentic Catholicism looks like.

God bless and guide you on your journey to Him!

Chloe M.
 
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