"The Apostle Paul and the Universal Call to Holiness"
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Archdiocesan
Center at St. Thomas Seminary
9:00
am-12:00 pm (“Coffee and” begins at 8:30 am)
Pre-registration required by October 12, 2012
Presenter: Dr. Joan M.
Kelly, Sacred Heart University
Every baptized
Christian is called to be nothing less than a saint, as the Second Vatican Council reminded us. This "universal
call to holiness," was one of the landmark teachings that initiated the
current renewal of the church, already begun in the late 1960s. This is not a
new teaching, however. The universal call to holiness was taught by Paul in the
first century and is energetically put forward in the NT Letter to the
Ephesians: "I plead with you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received!" Dr. Kelly
will explore this theme from the Vatican II document Lumen Gentium in connection with St. Paul’s writings.
