The Saints Next Door
We are never completely ourselves unless we belong to a people
That is why no one is saved alone.
Rather God draws us to himself, taking into account the fabric of interpersonal relationships present in a human community.
God wanted to enter into the life and history of a people.
I like to contemplate the holiness present in the patience of God’s people:
A) in those parents who raise their children with immense love, B) in those men and women who work hard to support their families
C) in the sick, in elderly religious who never lose their smile.
Very often in is a holiness found in our next-door neighbors, those who, living in our midst, reflect God’s presence.
We might call them “the middle class of holiness.
