To try to become holy is to try to become more like Christ, to pray to Him, to meditate on Him and to find communion with the Father in and through and with Him. We cannot become holy without a life of prayer. How can we preach Christ and communicate His mercy and His love without ourselves being in communion with Him in our prayer? I often think that a priest should spend at least ten minutes in the church on Sunday before every Mass so that the people can actually see the priest as a man of prayer. They then will know that this is at the heart of his life.
To try to become holy means also bringing the love of Jesus to our brothers and sisters by our lives.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, London
