Universal Call to Holiness

What is the Universal Call to Holiness? It is the Catholic teaching that all people are called to be holy. Throughout these past weeks in class we have been talking about, and doing assignments on the universal call to holiness. There is a great quote from scripture that states, "In the Church everyone does not proceed by the same path, nevertheless all are called to sanctify and have received equal privilege of faith throughout the justice of God." This reveals that this call is built off of sacred scripture, and that also, this quote represents that everyone is different, and everyone's call to holiness is different as well. As members of the Catholic Church, when God calls us to holiness, there are 5 different ways to respond to his call. These five responses  consist of active and regular participation in the Church; frequent reception of the sacraments; well informed life of prayer; practice of sacrifice and self-denial; the sanctification of ordinary life; and our witness and apostolic in the Church community. When we are given our call, we must obey it, because in the God will direct us in the right direction.