Your are Good or Holy?

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One day, a priest went to visit Mother Teresa for the first time in his life. A group of sisters accompanied him and introduced him to her as a good priest from a certain locality. Mother Teresa nodded and said, “He is not a good priest, but a holy priest.”

In our daily instruction to children, we often emphasize the importance of being good, but we rarely speak about being holy. In the Book of Book of Leviticus (11:44), it is written: “Be holy, for I am holy.”

A person’s goodness is often evaluated on the basis of outward actions, but holiness belongs to the inner conscience. It is, in many ways, a matter between God and the individual.

To be holy means to have the courage to be different. Even in the midst of uncertainty and dilemmas, if one can stand firm without being shaken, then one has grown in holiness. If our ultimate aim is to be united with the Holy of Holies—the Almighty God—then being good is not enough; we must strive to be holy.

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  1. Armila AntonyJune 12, 2021 at 9:47 AM

    Yes father, our father is holy.... and we have to be too.

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