Thank you for the St. Cyril of Alexandria quote:
‘If in effect the fragrance of aromatic plants impregnates clothing with its own virtue and in some way transforms into itself that in which it finds itself, how does the Spirit not have the power, since it issues from God by nature, to give by itself to those in which it finds itself the communication of the divine nature?’
St. Cyril of Alexandria
I believe one of the best helps to become a saint is to surround oneself with the saints and to admire their purity.
And that if one has something necessary to say, to repeat and use their words as often as possible rather than one’s own.
‘Brothers, we must follow such examples. For it is written: Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.’
'“In the company of the innocent, you will be innocent; in the company of the elect, you will be elect; and in a crooked man’s company you will go wrong.” [Ps. 18:26,27]
Let us, then, follow the innocent and the upright. They, it is, who are God’s elect.’
Pope St. Clement I of Rome
‘The glorious deeds of the saints, however, do more than afford us comfort. In order that we may imitate and be encouraged by them, one and all the saints echo in their own lives the saying of Saint Paul, “I beg you, be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.”’
Pope St. Pius X, ‘Editae Saepe’
‘Our prayers are so dear to God, that he has appointed the angels to present them to him as soon as they come forth from our mouths. ‘The angels,’ says St. Hilary, ‘preside over the prayers of the faithful, and offer them daily to God.’ This is that smoke of the incense, which are the prayers of saints, which St. John saw ascending to God from the hands of the angels (Apoc. 8,3); and which he saw in another place represented by golden phials full of sweet odors, very acceptable to God.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
‘Beside all this, a more wonderful grace is bestowed upon the Saints in heaven: for they know not only them with whom they were acquainted in this world, but also those whom before they never saw, and converse with them in such familiar sort as though in times past they had seen and known one another: and therefore when they shall see the ancient fathers in that place of perpetual bliss, they shall then know them by sight, whom always they knew in their lives and conversation. For seeing they do in that place with unspeakable brightness, common to all, behold God, what is there that they know not, that know him who knoweth all things?’
Pope St. Gregory the Great
Too late tonight to watch the video but will look forward to it in the next days.