“Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to Confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can.” – St. Dominic Savio
Living a saintly life is not merely a “white knuckle effort.” God’s grace is absolutely necessary for sustained holiness and the two most effective sources of this grace are the Eucharist and Confession. I recently had a conversation with a middle aged business leader on this topic. He said, “Fr. Michael, we all have the potential to be either great saints or great sinners…and it is so easy to go the other way. We are all walking on a sharp precipice, and without lots of prayer and grace, you simply cannot stay on the straight and narrow.” So true.
