tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post2008896885252120957..comments2024-02-10T13:49:57.576+00:00Comments on The Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma: Some Consideration of the Heroic Virtues of Pope St. John Paul II The Boneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10271719805983763595noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-42944714755922320142014-04-25T21:58:24.342+01:002014-04-25T21:58:24.342+01:00Good article, but it is not merely heroic virtue w...Good article, but it is not merely heroic virtue which makes one a saint, but the entire route of the perfection of all the virtues. Canonization is an infallible recognition that one was perfected, even for a short time, while on earth. The road to perfection has been clarified in modern times by many authors. And, it is not merely what people DO but what they BECOME in being called saints.<br /><br />Heroic virtues are merely one class of virtues, not to be confused with the theological and cardinal virtues. A saint must share all these with the world, as indicated by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, with the listing of the Beatitudes.<br /><br />What the Church recognizes in a canonization are all the virtues, and especially, the fact that a person lived purgatory on earth, revealing to the world the needed purgation to enter heaven on death.<br /><br />Such is the role of the saint and it is, in my mind, the long years of illness and the outward decaying of his vitality which showed us that John Paul II is a saint to be thus proclaimed by Holy Mother Church.Supertradmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829935047036023159noreply@blogger.com