Today is the feast of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of Prayer. This is one of my favourite prayers from this saint who was a teacher (doctor) of prayer:

O God, you are all-powerful; make me a saint!

The saints were not passive in the sense of resigned to being or living with the muck that we are born with. They wanted to be cleaned up. They knew it took God’s all-powerfulness to do it. They asked for it, no matter what it took and how much it hurt and how much it may have seemed to strip them of their own senses and their own will (only to gain them of course). But God can do all this! It’s beyond us. But with God, sanctity is possible. This is confidence:

O God, you are all-powerful; make me a saint!