Do You Want to Be a Saint?

Friends, All Saints Day falls on a Sunday this year, so the Church can give special attention to this important solemnity. Léon Bloy famously said that there is only one real sadness in life: not to be a saint. Sainthood is the ordinary goal of Christian life; it’s what the whole spiritual life is about. But what does it mean to be a saint? What do we have to do to become one? And do we truly want it?