By LiCAS.news
SINGAPORE – Cardinal William Goh has underscored that holiness is not confined to church ministries, stressing that lay Catholics can achieve sanctity through their work in everyday life.
“Serving in church ministries is not the only way to grow in holiness; another way is to live it out at the workplace,” said the Cardinal during a Mass on Jun 28 to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of St Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei.
According to a report by Catholic News SG, Cardinal Goh told a congregation of about 800 people, many of them Opus Dei members, that “Saint Josemaria showed the way to sanctify ordinary life.”
Opus Dei, which means “work of God” in Latin, teaches that daily work is a path to holiness and has some 95,000 members in 68 countries, primarily lay people.
“All Christians are called to holiness, but God gives us special charisms for the work each one of us does,” he added.
Founded in 1928 in Spain, Opus Dei promotes the idea that all people are called to become saints by carrying out their daily tasks with love and excellence. St Josemaria’s best-known spiritual book, The Way, has sold nearly four million copies and been translated into 43 languages.
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