{"id":51593,"date":"2026-11-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/?p=51593"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:35:22","slug":"todos-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/todos-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"All Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is how God wants us: holy. \u201cAs he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: \u201dBe holy, because I am holy\u2019\u201d (1 Peter 1:15-16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Youcat catechism (342) asks: should we all be saints? And it answers: yes. The meaning of our lives lies in uniting ourselves to God in love, in responding to God's dreams. "We must allow God to live His life in us," said Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Anyone asks: who am I, why am I here, how do I find fulfillment? Faith answers: only in holiness does the human being reach true harmony with himself and with the Creator. Holiness, however, is not a "homemade" perfection; it is achieved through union with incarnate Love, which is Christ. Whoever, in this way, attains a new life, becomes and discovers himself to be holy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, throughout the ages, the Church has encountered men and women who embodied Jesus in their lives, some even giving their lives for Him in martyrdom. These are models showing that it is possible to be holy today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. Gaspar del Bufalo understood holiness in this way: \u201cOh God, when will we be definitively yours? This is not a task for a single day, but for a lifetime.\u201d He sought his own holiness through the spirituality of the Most Precious Blood, but gave his life for the sanctification of all people. It is a counsel that abounds in his letters: \u201cLet us be holy.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kingdom of God will only come about in the world through holy people!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c9 assim que Deus nos quer: santos. \u201cAssim como \u00e9 santo Aquele que vos chamou, sede santos, v\u00f3s tamb\u00e9m, em todo o vosso proceder, conforme diz a Escritura: Sede santos, porque Eu sou santo\u201d (1 Pdr 1,15-16). No catecismo Youcat (342) pergunta-se: devemos ser todos santos? E reponde: sim. O sentido da nossa vida est\u00e1 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[197,175,299],"class_list":["post-51593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-espiritualidade","tag-s-gaspar-del-bufalo","tag-santidade","tag-santos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51596,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51593\/revisions\/51596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}