Talk about sainthood and most, if not all, can't identify with it. Holiness is perceived as something not humanly possible. Pang-pari't madre lang yan. Sa totoo lang lahat naman tayo tinatawag magpakabanal. Kaya lang parang kailangan me malaking magawa para magpakabanal. Look at St. Augustine, he has written volumes and volumes of treatises and sermons. St. Thomas Aquinas, he wrote Summa Theologica, which became practically the textbook of theologians for centuries. San Lorenzo Ruiz, he died for the faith, enduring countless hours of torture and finally drowning to death. St. Francis of Assisi, he left all his riches and dramatized it by taking off his clothes in the middle of the plaze of Assisi. Sto. Domingo, he founded a congregation of preachers. These are all great works, big things, only few is capable of these!
Here, we appreciate the greatness of St. Therese of Lisieaux, the little flower. In the midst of these great saints in the garden of the Lord, St. Therese considred herself a little flower. Her calling was not to do great things, but to do ordinary thing with extraordinary faith and love. Walang drama, walang malalalim na sermon, walang mabibigat na theology, walang congregation - kundi pang-araw-araw na gawain, simple, ordinario, at parang walang kuwenta, pero makahulugan kung puno ng pagmamahal at pananampalataya. This is her little way.
We may not be capable of great works in our lifetime, but we all face ordinary and simple tasks everyday, and doing them with the strenght of faith and the sincerity of love, we are all capable of this, with God's grace. For some, the road to holiness is the road of greatness, but for many of us, the road to holiness is the road of simple, ordinary, daily tasks.
