Saintly Living

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How does one live like a Saint in everyday life?
Praying?
Contemplation?
Meditation?
Sitting in silence?
and if so, how would a Saint living in solitude not get bored from everyday interactions with people?
 
Praying the rosary, fasting, reading scripture, attending mass and adoration, helping those in need. Not complaining about their circumstances and giving all their suffering to God.
 
St. Aloysius said that many souls were lukewarm because they never did contemplation.
Other saints recommended it as well as a way to grow in holiness.
Also, praying= you speaking to God
Listening= God speaking to you. Remember: you have one mouth, two ears.
Listening is the most important.
Go to adoration often and just say: speak Lord, for your servants is listening.
A image of the Holy face in your room can be helpful as well.
Also, to consecrate ourselves to Mary is a very secure way to attain holiness. Allow her to lead you along this way by means of some kind of Marian devotion. Mary made herself known under so many titles. You can devote yourself to her under either of them.
 
Live in the Word. DO what Jesus commands us. Prayer and contemplation: wonderful. Doing the beatitudes, living in obedience to all that Jesus taught us, being Christ to others: magnificent! Read the lives of the saints and you will discover a model or two that fits with the gifts God gave you to use for His glory.
 
I think Jesus said it well:

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’** 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

That is the cure, many “items” along the way may help, but are more like treatments than the cure.

You follow this and you will be who God wants you to be :)**
 
scrupulousrvrt said:
How does one live like a Saint in everyday life?
Praying?
Contemplation?
Meditation?
Sitting in silence?
and if so, how would a Saint living in solitude not get bored from everyday interactions with people?
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I want to answer your last question. Do you listen to podcasts? Well, I do, and I listen to one that is called “Catholic Stuff You Should Know”, and I like it very much.

A week or so ago they put out an episode where they talked about Martyrs and Monasticism (kind of a strange combination, but it makes sense if you listen to the episode!).

Anyway, to your question, the host of the show, who is also a priest, said that monastics withdraw from the world to live in community with other monastics, and that those monastics that are also hermits have such a deep relationship with God that he becomes the only community they need.

Maybe they do get bored sometimes, but all their interpersonal relationship needs are met by God.

Also, you left out a big part of being a saint: Action. Heal the sick, feed the hungry, comfort the oppressed, visit the imprisoned, die to yourself and live for others: that is much harder and more rewarding than praying in silence.

Pax

PS (I know that some are called to only pray in silence, and they are just as saintly as those who are more active in the world)
 
One lives as a Christian. That is how. 🙂 Wlalking by the Spirit as Paul notes.

Prayer, the Sacraments, Scripture, virtue, etc etc

Saint Paul referred to Christians - as saints.

Christians on earth – who are living “in Christ” – are saints.

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church 823 :

"The Church, then, is “the holy People of God,” and her members are called “saints.”

And from Pope Benedict XVI:

“In his First Letter to the Corinthians, St Paul addresses “those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Cor 1: 2). Indeed, Christians are already saints because Baptism unites them to Jesus and to his Paschal Mystery…”

(and then discussing becoming --more holy --more conformed to Christ he continues…)

“…but at the same time they must become so by conforming themselves every more closely to him.”

Saint Paul uses the term ‘saint’ in various places to simply refer to Christians. Those living on earth…see his various letters.

“Sometimes, people think that holiness is a privileged condition reserved for the few elect. Actually, becoming holy is every Christian’s task… The Apostle writes that God has always blessed us and has chosen us in Christ “that we should be holy and blameless before him… in love” (Eph 1: 3-5). … The “Way” is Christ, the Son, the Holy One of God: “no one comes to the Father but by me [Jesus]” (cf. Jn 14: 6).”

~ Pope Benedict XVI 1 November 2007

w2.vatican.va/content/benedi…ll-saints.html

Now over the centuries yes another use of the term saints developed. Saints has been yes used for those who have lived as saints in a heroic way (by the grace of God of course).

And yes later a process of canonization developed to recognize them, honor them and propose them as special models for the Christian faithful in following Christ.

Thus one can say there are saints and also Saints in the canonized sense or at least the recognized sense (they were recognized long before the process of canonization developed…especially Our Lady, the Apostles and Martyrs).
We are ‘saints’ via faith and baptism - via the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth…via the Holy Spirit…and yes we are to become more and more so.
So when someone says to me “oh well I am not a saint” say “you better get to confession then” and the explain what I mean …
 
I think it’s abandoning ourselves to God’s Will, and doing His Will.

Holiness is found in God’s Will for us.

We love God, receive the Sacraments, pray and spend time with Him in mental prayer/contemplation.

We let Him transform us over time. Sometimes we just don’t have enough surrender in prayer.
 
moonlight87 said:
By abandoning yourself to God. Holiness is the work of God accomplished in us. I can highly recommend the following book
frjacquesphilippe.com/book/way-trust-love-retreat-guided-st-th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se-lisieux
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moonlight87 said:
St. Aloysius said that many souls were lukewarm because they never did contemplation.
Other saints recommended it as well as a way to grow in holiness.
Also, praying= you speaking to God
Listening= God speaking to you. Remember: you have one mouth, two ears.
Listening is the most important.
Go to adoration often and just say: speak Lord, for your servants is listening.
A image of the Holy face in your room can be helpful as well.
Also, to consecrate ourselves to Mary is a very secure way to attain holiness. Allow her to lead you along this way by means of some kind of Marian devotion. Mary made herself known under so many titles. You can devote yourself to her under either of them.
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I think this is very true
 
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