Be ye therefore perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.1 Thus ends the Gospel of today's Mass. In many ways the Church is reminding us, in these forty days of preparation for Easter, that our Lord expects much more from us: a serious commitment to holiness.
Be perfect... And our Lord is not only addressing the Apostles, but all those who want to be his true disciples. It is expressly said that when Jesus finished these discourses, the multitudes were amazed at his doctrine.2 This great number of people who listen to him would be mothers of families, fishermen, artisans, doctors of the law, young people... They all understand him and are amazed because the Lord addresses them all. For everyone, each one according to his own circumstances, the Lord has great demands. The Master calls to holiness without distinction of age, profession, race or social condition. There are no followers of Christ without a Christian vocation, without a personal call to holiness. God chose us to be holy and blameless in his presence,3 St. Paul will repeat to the first Christians of Ephesus; and to achieve this goal, an effort is needed that continues throughout our days here on earth: the just man must justify himself more and the saint more and more must be sanctified.4
This doctrine of the universal call to holiness has been, since 1928, by divine inspiration, one of the central points of St. Josemaría Escrivá's preaching, which has once again reminded us in our time-in every way possible-that the Christian, through his Baptism, is called to the fullness of Christian life, to holiness.
The Second Vatican Council has declared for the whole Church this ancient Gospel doctrine: the Christian is called to holiness, from the place he occupies in society. "All the faithful, whatever their state and condition, are called by God, each in his own way, to the perfection of holiness, for which the Father himself is perfect. 5 Each and every one of the faithful.
The Lord calls all Christians who are in the midst of the world in full professional occupation, so that they may find him there, carrying out that task with human perfection and, at the same time, with a supernatural sense: offering it to God, living charity with the people they deal with, mortification, the presence of God...
Today we can ask ourselves in our prayer with our Lord if we thank him frequently for this call to follow him closely, if we are responding to the graces received through a clear and vibrant ascetic struggle to acquire the virtues, if we are vigilant in rejecting all gentrification, which kills the desire for sanctity and leaves the soul submerged in spiritual mediocrity and lukewarmness. It is not enough to want to be good; one must make a determined effort to be holy.
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