{"id":3150,"date":"2007-01-31T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T10:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/what-is-holiness.html"},"modified":"2007-01-31T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T10:14:56","slug":"what-is-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/what-is-holiness.html","title":{"rendered":"What is holiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pope, in today’s General Audience:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Saints also disagreed among themselves and holiness does not imply not making mistakes, but rather is one\u2019s capacity to convert and repent, to start all over, as the lives of some of Saint Paul\u2019s collaborators show, i.e. people who devoted their lives to spreading the Gospel.<\/p>\n

Before 6,000 people gathered in the Paul VI Hall for the general audience, the Pope today spoke of the behaviour of Saint Paul\u2019s companions, especially Barnabas, Silvanus and Apollos, who devoted themselves to evangelisation. <\/p>\n

Benedict XVI stressed first of all that all three were part of a wider group. \u201cThe apostle is open to collaboration; he does not try to do everything alone but relies of several helpers,\u201d including women like Phoebe and Prisca. Among these the Pope focused on three, who played a particularly significant role in evangelisation.<\/p>\n

The Pope said that Barnabas was one of the first Christians who dedicated himself to evangelisation in Tarsus and Antioch and almost \u201creturned\u201d Paul to the Church. He went on mission with the apostle for what came to be known as the first missionary trip of the apostle of the peoples.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were together at the so-called Council of Jerusalem, where the apostles decided to separate circumcision from the Christian identity\u201d, thus opening the Church to the pagans.<\/p>\n

Paul and Barnabas \u201cquarrelled however during their second missionary trip\u201d over which comrade to bring along.<\/p>\n

For Benedict XVI this shows that \u201ceven among the saints there were disagreements\u201d and this is \u201ccomforting\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pope, in today’s General Audience: Saints also disagreed among themselves and holiness does not imply not making mistakes, but rather is one\u2019s capacity to convert and repent, to start all over, as the lives of some of Saint Paul\u2019s collaborators show, i.e. people who devoted their lives to spreading the Gospel. 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