Why all of us are called to be saints

By nature his temperament was choleric, fiery; little was needed to throw him into a state of violent anger.

Go on over and read about the amazing saint who started out with such a bad temper!

It reminds me of an email conversation I had with someone about a mutual friend of ours who exhibits qualities that I think will make him some day be declared a saint.

I told her that I sometimes think to myself, I am no great example like this person when I find myself being uncharitable.

"but then I'll think to myself, [he] did not drop down from the sky with this kind of love, it is a love he has stormed heaven for through prayer, through discipline, and many hours of tears at experiencing his own spiritual poverty and hungering and thirsting after righteousness and the experience of coming to the end of himself, his human abilities, and trusting and waiting on God, who is faithful when we pour ourselves out and let Him in. Why do I give myself a pass on this, why should I not be as charitable as he is? He shows me that I have no excuses not to be as loving as he is."