Pope Francis’ top 10 secrets for living a holier life
Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — As children (and grown-ups) are getting ready for Halloween tonight, Pope Francis has spent the past week getting people ready for the feast of All Saints, celebrated Nov. 1.
A fresco of an angel by Melozzo of Forli is seen in the Vatican Museums in 2010. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
While the saints are meant to be role models for today’s men and women, the pope likes to remind people that holiness is not something completely out of reach — it’s not some “rare privilege for the few,” but an inheritance everyone receives at baptism.
The pope has said, “Saints aren’t superheroes nor were they born perfect. They are like us, each one of us,” but when they experienced the life-changing encounter with God, they never left his side.
So are you ready to be a saint!?
We’ve compiled some of Pope Francis’ Top 10 Secrets of Success for living a holy life in the slideshow below:
A fresco by Melozzo of Forli in the Vatican Museums 2010. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
An angel on the Castel Sant'Angelo bridge in Rome. (CNS photoPaul Haring)
Mass celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi outside the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
A nun comforts a child in Bethlehem, West Bank, 2010. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Petite Riviere des Nippes, Haiti, 2011. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
A vigil for military personnel at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France in 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Outside St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans in 2005. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Pope Francis with Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud, Muslim leader, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in May, 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
St. Peter's Square in Dec. 2013. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
A woman prays in St. Peter's Square in Nov. 2011. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
A pilgrim outside the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, 2011. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
The canonization Mass for seven new saints in Oct. 2012. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Statues of the saints on the colonnade in St. Peter's Square in March, 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring)
