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\"T36668-cvr-5\"<\/a>Have you ever thought about what you could be canonized for?<\/p>\n

I think most of us are more preoccupied with what we could be condemned for.<\/p>\n

Sainthood seems like something pretty distant.<\/p>\n

Part of the\u00a0problem is saints are often portrayed as somehow\u00a0being perfect almost\u00a0from birth. The other part is that almost all the saints are priests, nuns, and (lately) popes.<\/p>\n

For those of us who worry more about paying the bills than getting closer to God and think silent contemplation is a 10 minute nap in the afternoon while the kids are sleeping, it can be hard to identify with the saints.<\/p>\n

Lino Rulli has that same problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen average Catholics look in the mirror, they don\u2019t see a priest, nun, or pope. They don\u2019t see a hallowed vision of a future saint. Instead they see a fluorescent-lit reflection of a layperson, a current sinner with all sorts of ugly struggles and failures.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is the Church perhaps inadvertently sending the message that regular lay Catholics can\u2019t be saints? \u201cIf that\u2019s the case, the consequences are huge,\u201d says Rulli, \u201cRegular laypeople\u2014that is, the majority of people actually in the Catholic Church\u2014don\u2019t really believe we\u2019re called to be saints.\u201d
\n<\/p>\n

But called we are. Which is why, in his new book Saint<\/em>, Lino Rulli is humorously putting forward\u00a0his own cause for canonization. Not only in spite of his shortcomings (which he details in brutal honesty), but because of them, so he can be a saint the average Joe can identify with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope this book encourages you to focus on your own spiritual growth. To realize that you might not be as big a sinner as you think, and that, with God\u2019s help, you might just become a saint.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Saint<\/em> is a tongue-in-cheek look at Catholic spirituality through the lens of Lino Rulli\u2019s life\u2014a less-than-perfect but sincerely striving \u201csaint in the making.\u201d Rulli has a way of illuminating the struggles we all experience with faith.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a tension in all of us, we\u2019re torn between a desire for the world and a longing for the divine.\u00a0Our heroic aspirations to chastity bump up against real life sexual temptations. Trust in God is undermined by insecurities. Charity gives way to jealousy. Humility gets trampled because attention and fame are more fun.<\/p>\n

Rulli hits all these big vices and then swings around to practical solutions. I’ve always been a huge fan of using personal stories<\/a> in catechesis to make your spiritual point. But I’m even more convinced of it after reading this book.<\/p>\n

Stories form connections<\/a> and removes barriers. Transparency about your life builds trust<\/a>.\u00a0I don’t know if I could be as forthcoming as he is, but it really works.\u00a0I found myself identifying\u00a0with a lot of his struggles so, naturally, when he offered a solution I tried to figure out if it applied to me.<\/p>\n

With stories that will make you chuckle out loud more than once, Lino Rulli does a great job teaching about the universal call to holiness. He\u00a0knows his canonization is highly unlikely. Nevertheless, he’s called to be a saint. So are we all.<\/p>\n

I think he’s right. Even though sainthood is our calling, very few of us actually\u00a0believe it\u00a0could happen.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, through this effort to document his own cause for canonization, Lino will further my own. I don’t think he’ll mind…as long as he makes it to sainthood first.<\/p>\n

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