How we can receive more from the Mass - 16 (Creed - the Church is holy)
“I believe in one, holy , catholic and apostolic Church.” The Church is holy because God is holy, and because the Church is the Body of Christ with Jesus as the head. And the Church and her sacraments help to make us holy. This does not mean that all members of the Church are sin free – we are, all of us, sinners. But there is a universal call to holiness; we are called to strive for sainthood, to be like God. That is what we were created to be, and God took human flesh in Jesus that we might, like him, be holy. "The Son of God became man so that man might become God." (St Athanasius) Holiness does not diminish us, it enhances us. There can a temptation to see holiness as negative, as merely being the absence of sin, maybe a bit worthy or dull. But Jesus said that he came that we may have life, and have it abundantly (Jn 10:10). When you meet a truly holy person there is a transparent radiance of joy, of goodness, and a res...