I am a Catholic faithful sentire cum ecclesia, Entrepreneur and looking forward to bring about change and Godly reform.
Pesach Life Coach Institute founder.
THE HABITS OF SAINTS: THE SMALL DAILY CHOICES THAT CREATED GREAT HOLINESS
Saints were not born as perfect people. They became saints through thousands of small decisions made with love for God.
Behind every great saint was a hidden life of discipline, prayer, sacrifice, and surrender.
1. THEY PUT GOD FIRST
Saints began and ended their days with God. Prayer was not an obligation; it was their source of strength.
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
2. THEY LOVED THE EUCHARIST
The saints understood that Jesus Christ in the Eucharist was not a symbol, but the true source of divine life.
Many saints arranged their entire lives around the Holy Mass and time before the Blessed Sacrament.
3. THEY PRAYED CONSISTENTLY
Saints did not pray only when life was difficult. Prayer was their daily breath.
The Rosary, Scripture, silent meditation, and personal conversation with God transformed their hearts.
4. THEY PRACTICED HUMILITY
Saints did not seek greatness in the eyes of the world.
They sought to become small enough for God to work through them.
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:6
5. THEY EMBRACED SACRIFICE
Saints understood that love without sacrifice is incomplete.
They fasted, forgave, served others, and offered their sufferings to God.
6. THEY GUARDED THEIR HEARTS
They were careful about what they allowed into their minds and souls.
They avoided anything that pulled them away from God and pursued purity, virtue, and truth.
7. THEY FORGAVE QUICKLY
Saints knew that hatred chains the heart.
They chose mercy because they understood how much mercy they themselves had received from Christ.
8. THEY SERVED THE POOR AND SUFFERING
Their love for God overflowed into love for others.
They saw the face of Jesus in the forgotten, the suffering, and the abandoned.
9. THEY REPENTED DAILY
Saints were not people who never fell.
They were people who never stopped returning to God.
They trusted in God’s mercy and continually sought conversion.
10. THEY DESIRED HEAVEN ABOVE EVERYTHING
Saints lived on earth, but their hearts belonged to eternity.
They remembered that this world is temporary and that our final destination is communion with God forever.
The path to sainthood is not reserved for a chosen few.
It begins with simple daily faithfulness:
A prayer whispered in the morning.
A sacrifice offered in silence.
A kindness given without recognition.
A heart that chooses God again and again.
The saints became saints because they allowed God to transform ordinary days into extraordinary holiness.
The same God who worked through the saints is still calling us to holiness today.
Will you begin?
Jesus said to his disciples: "I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you."
John 16:12-15
† St. Padre Pio says:
"Be attentive to take care of yourself and your family according to His will, and do not worry about anything else. If you do this ••••• you will see Jesus is taking care of you."
Trust in Jesus!!
Know that you have been created for the glory of God and your own eternal salvation. This is your goal; this is the center of your life; this is the treasure of your heart…
St. Robert Bellarmine.
Please educate your Non-Catholics friends with this. Show them that when they see an upside-down cross in a Catholic Church, it’s not satanic. It’s a reference to how Peter (the first pope) was martyred. The upside-down cross is the official symbol of St. Peter.
Holy Spirit, Beloved of my soul, I adore You. Enlighten me, guide me, strengthen me, and console me.
Tell me what I should do, give me Your orders,
and help me to accept all that You permit to happen to me today.
Amen