Be Perfect as Your Heavenly Father is Perfect

Part of the message that Jesus delivered to his disciples during the Sermon on the Mount was, "So be perfect, just as your heavenly father is perfect." (Mt 5:48) This is the root of our vocational call to holiness, gifted to us in the Sacrament of Baptism. Part of the Serran mission is to support fellow Serrans in their individual response to the Vocational Call to Holiness. This blog page is intended to do just that. We all struggle at times with holiness and our reponse to God's call. Here, we provide helpful links and original reflections about living out our Catholic Christian call to "be merciful just as your Father is merciful." (Lk 6:36)

Prayer to the Holy Spirit - Cardinal Mercier

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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Cardinal Mercier was a Belgian Catholic Church leader during World War I, maintaining a staunch resistance to the German Occupation. In 1917, he told his priests not to tell their flocks to love if they, the same priests, could not explain the theology that justifies love. Read on to learn about his simple but very powerful lesson.