“Holiness is not a privilege for the few.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his catechesis on the Second Vatican Council and ‘Lumen gentium,’ reflecting on the universal call to holiness.
Every baptized person is called to holiness—to live in the grace of God, to practice the virtues, and to become like Christ. This interior transformation is not possible without the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist.
The highest level of holiness is martyrdom—every believer must be ready to confess Christ even unto death. But this readiness to bear witness is realized every day—every time we leave signs of faith, love, and justice in society. Consecrated people bear special witness to this universal vocation to holiness, in the form of radical discipleship.
“There is no human experience that God does not redeem: even suffering, lived in union with the passion of the Lord, becomes a path of holiness.”
