2 Cor 6, 1: As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says: “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

The reason of our life is that we exist for one single reason: to be the best version of ourselves. Not a low grade. High definition movie. This is the one were you can really see all the details, even on a large screen. This is the nature of sanctity. Not a B&W photo, low density, or without all the colour potential.

Saint Josemaria had this intuition. He had this ability to read into the Gospel all the potential that was locked inside those divinely inspired lines. 

What jumped out at him was a single word (in Latin) that opened up for him a whole world of possibilities, of enthusiasm, and generosity in serving God. He was so struck by this one word, that he had it embroidered on altar cloths, written out in stone, and even he would write it out as an aspiration on a piece of paper and use this as a bookmark in his breviary. That single word was Possumus. We can. What does this mean for our sanctity, our holiness? Can we do it? A meditation at Lyncroft Centre, Toronto, September 18, 2022.

Music: Carlos Gardel, Soledad, arranged by Bert Alink.

Thumbnail: The Majestat Batlló is a 12th century Romanesque wooden crucifix, now in the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona.