Letters

Call to holiness (letter)

Mark Calleja

Contents - Dec 2004 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Religious literacy: why not a national inquiry? - Michael Gilchrist US and Australian election results: the cultural revolution challenged - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Gone fishing: Catholic Earthcare Australia adopts discredited Green agenda - Pat Byrne Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first - Cardinal George Pell English language: Will Rome ensure the completion of an improved Mass translation? - William Oddie Liturgy: Redemptionis Sacramentum on the liturgical rights of the faithful - CDF New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith - Fr John Walter Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary - Martin Tobin Society: American surveys show advantages of sexual abstinence education Letters: Orthodoxy succeeds (letter) - Fr Adrian Head Letters: Seminary reforms (letter) - Fr Peter Thompson CM Letters: Election result (letter) - Maureen Federico Letters: Liturgical development (letter) - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Letters: Catholic youth (letter) - Robert Denahy Letters: Graham Greene a Catholic? (letter) - Malcolm Mackinnon Letters: Mass translation (letter) - Leo McManus Letters: 'Fem-speak' (letter) - C.V.Phillips Letters: Misunderstanding over 'Come As You Are' (letter) - Peter Hannigan Letters: Call to holiness (letter) - Mark Calleja Letters: Abortion (letter) - Maryse Usher Letters: Nihilism (letter) - Robert Prinzen-Wood Poetry: The Salami Treatment - Bruce Dawe Books: Decoding Da Vinci, by Amy Welborn - Anthony Cappello (reviewer) Books: Theology of the Church, by Cardinal Charles Journet - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: Making Sense of Private Revelations, by Fr Paul Newton - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Books: Architects of the Culture of Death, by Donald DeMarco and Benjamin Wiker - Jodie Brown (reviewer) Books: Inspiring Christmas Gifts Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world - Pope John Paul II

I was edified to read the article "St Francis and the universal call to holiness" (November AD2000) by Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM. As usual he was spot on in putting across the authentic evangelical message.

I agree with him that on God's part there is no preference in granting His grace to those who ask for it. Jesus Christ died for us all and all of us are called to reap his infinite redemptive merits in order to gain eternal salvation. But we ought to strive our best to warrant heaven.

In following Jesus, we experience a special inner joy and feel fulfilled. However, while God is a forgiving Father, Jesus warns us that if we wish to be saved we must keep God's commandments - we surely cannot have it both ways! Father Camilleri explains this point very well.

I am sure his valuable contributions in AD2000 encourage many people of faith to strive harder to ensure their eternal salvation.

MARK CALLEJA
Heidelberg, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 17 No 11 (December 2004 - January 2005), p. 16