Is Sanctity for Everyone, Even for me? | Fr. John Mark Solitario

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 15th, 2024, at Mississippi State University.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. John Mark Solitario is from St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in West Springfield, MA and the eldest of four children. After attending Catholic schools through high school, he earned his bachelor of arts from Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. Desiring to contribute to Catholic education, he was admitted to the PACT (Providence Alliance of Catholic Teachers) Program at Providence College where he completed a Masters of Education and taught high school in Lowell, MA for two years. He credits his growth in the Catholic Faith and inspiration to live it fully to outstanding teachers and role models, among them not a few Dominicans—priests, sisters, and lay. “From the time I met the Order, I aspired to the Dominican ideal of contemplation followed by a generous sharing of the fruits of that encounter with God. I have found this ideal realized and sustained within the fraternal life of the Province of St. Joseph.”

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0:58.7	At the time of the Second Vatican Council,
1:01.4	when the church sought to give an expression of its very inner mystery in nature,
1:07.5	a very central part of that expression,
1:10.1	in the document that's passed down to us,
1:11.7	known as Lumen Gensium, is in fact an assertion about the call of every single Christian.
1:19.5	And this is a call that comes from the Lord Jesus Christ to be holy.
1:26.3	So allow me to read a short quote from Lumengencium, paragraph 40.
1:32.3	The Lord Jesus, the divine teacher and model of all perfection, preached holiness of life
1:39.3	to each and every one of his disciples of every condition.
1:42.3	He himself stands as the author and consummator of this
1:46.7	holiness of life. Be you therefore perfect, even as your father is perfect. And that's taking a quote
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