What is Stopping You from Becoming a Saint?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It may seem too difficult, or even unrealistic, to be a saint today. The reality is though, a saint is simply someone who has conformed their will to the Father’s will rather than the spirit of the age. Fr. Mike mentions three popular mentalities that prevent us from becoming saints:
- Our hearts want instant gratification, while becoming like Christ is a process. Fr. Mike’s advice is learn to love the process.
- We like keeping our options open, but becoming a saint requires giving everything to Christ.
- We lack a fighting spirit. A saint needs a willingness to fight the good fight, especially when the spiritual battle is hardest.
Fr. Mike makes it abundantly clear that the only thing preventing us from becoming a saint is ourselves, because God’s grace is enough.
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| 0:00.0 | How My Name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:08.0 | So I was having a conversation with someone relatively recently about being a saint and |
| 0:12.9 | about how it seems like really really hard to be a saint. |
| 0:16.8 | They were saying that I know they know the stories, I know the story, you probably know |
| 0:19.5 | the stories of bunch of saints that seem to live really incredibly extreme lives. |
| 0:24.1 | Like they didn't have normal prayer, they had like an extreme prayer, they didn't have |
| 0:28.9 | normal fasts, they had extreme fasts, they didn't just normally serve, it kind of just |
| 0:33.3 | your day to day, here we are, you know, getting up and getting the kids ready for school and |
| 0:39.8 | getting to work. |
| 0:40.8 | Like they seem to have a, they seem to have really incredibly extreme lives. |
| 0:45.4 | And the question that came back was, do I have to, in order to be a saint, do I have |
| 0:50.6 | to have that same extremity, extremness, extremosity? |
| 0:56.6 | Do I have to be that extreme as well? |
| 0:58.2 | It's a really good question, I think, because I think being a saint can seem so out of reach |
| 1:04.1 | in this day and age, particularly when we compare it to other days and other ages and yet |
| 1:10.2 | it's always possible, it's always possible to be a saint. |
| 1:13.5 | Quick clarification, what's a saint? |
| 1:15.0 | I think we have a video about that as well so you can just, we can link it or you just look |
| 1:20.9 | it up. |
| 1:21.9 | I mean, you have Google, come on. |
| 1:23.8 | So essentially what we're talking about is someone who makes it to heaven. |
| 1:27.1 | As saint as anyone who's in heaven, not someone with a capital S, T, period in front of their |
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