DAILY HOMILIES #Blessed Tansi

Saints are not extraordinary people but ordinary people who live extraordinary lives by loving God and their neighbours as themselves. Blessed Tansi did not write an application letter to be beatified. The testimony of those who met him made the church recognise him. What will people say about you when you die?

Blessed Tansi was often accused of taking his Christian faith too seriously. He lived this vocation at the abbey for 14 years. Father Tansi used to say: “If you are going to be a Christian at all, you might as well live entirely for God”.

Today, Jesus gave us two parables where He compares the kingdom of God to a field and a pearl. In both instances, a man had to sell all that he had to buy it. If we must make heaven, we must be prepared to give up all that we have.