“Motive
is what makes the Saint: sanctification does not depend on our geography, nor
on our work or circumstances. Some people imagine that if they were in another
place, or married to a different spouse, or had a different job, or had more
money, they could do God's work so much better. The truth is that it makes no
difference where they are; it all depends on whether what they are doing is
God's Will and done for love of Him. We would all like to make our own crosses;
but since Our Lord did not make His Own, neither do we make ours. We can take
whatever He gives us, and we can make the supernatural best of it. The typist
at her desk working on routine letters, the street cleaner with his broom, the
farmer tilling the field with his horses, the doctor bending over a patient,
the lawyer trying his case, the student with his books, the sick in their
isolation and pain, the teacher drilling her pupils, the mother dressing the
children—every such task, every such duty can be ennobled and spiritualized if
it is done in God's Name.” —Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Lift Up Your Heart (1950)
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