This week really stir up in me the desire to transfer to my students the inspiration that moved me in treating them respect and love. Together with my Third Year High School students we shared much of our faith experiences in discussing how the Church--the people of God united in love, became the "Mystical Body of Christ." But of course much is also to be shared how we together with my Fourth Year High School students are invited to become living witnesses of Christ by responding to the call holiness. Before I will integrate the following theme: "We as people of God" and "Holiness as Vocation and Mission" allow me to lead you to one of the beautiful passages written by St. Paul on issues about love, here St. Paul describe love as follows:
"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
In animating and in giving life to the call of holiness one is driven towards showing love to the members of the Christian family the Church. One need not to perform extraordinary deeds of kindness in responding the invitation to be Holy in forming the Church as the people of God united in love. What is needed is simple act of kindness manifested in our daily activities such as throwing the garbage properly. Wearing a smiling face in dealing with other people. A smile, one should take note, is not exclusive only to whom we know but is meant to be shared to many alien to you or not. A student can also be holy in studying faithfully his her lesson. What about you, how can you become holy in your own little way?
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