“They regard the earth as an opportunity to attain heaven. The entire Church has established the saints—these heroes of the faith—as examples to follow, because through their lives and deeds they bear witness to the joy of God’s presence in our lives.
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“The question is not whether to love it, but how to love it rightly. Our citizenship is in heaven, says the Apostle, and from there we await the Savior. Remembering this does not mean despising the earth. It means refusing to demand from it what it could never give us in the first place – an unshakable foundation.
