At Sancta Maria Stella Maris this Morning

This morning at Sancta Maria Stella Maris we had Daniel Liporto speak to our men's group on Holiness and Manhood using material from the book, "Be a Man" (Fr. Larry Richards, Ignatius Press). It was so strengthening to the spirit to be reminded of our primary objective. Not career, not a house on the lake, not the latest Lexus off the showroom floor. It is not to live for the pursuit of pleasure, not the temporal thrills, the luster of what the world sells as love. It is something of far greater magnitude. It is what only heaven can endow but what we have to cooperate with: holiness. And as Leon Bloy once wrote, “The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint."