I'll try to start a project to grow spiritually in virtue and charity and at least do something to achieve perfection, although that's not a very simple thing to achieve. I'm a 25 y/o lawyer and student and I pray the 3 misteries of the rosary everyday. I have already read the whole bible but I still like to read one or two chapters of the old testament and one or two chapters of the new testament everyday. I pray the morning prayers and I pray before sleep and I attend TLM exclusivelly by a traditionalist priest when it is available (every month I have at least 4 masses). I go to confession once a month. That's basically my spiritual life.

I study 9 hour a day, except on saturdays and sundays, when I decrease the amount of time studying (it is my daily obligation to study like that, because I must study very much to get the job I want, since the test is very hard, and also to provide for my family).

I'm thinking to start by simple things like: never complain about anything and everything I would do, I would try to do it in the best way I can. Maybe consecrating everything I'll do to God before doing it.



Do you guys have anything, books, papal docuмents or anything like that regarding the subject? Thank you.

Aspiring to sainthood, you should take unto yourself a patron, probably (though not necessarily) a lawyer, for example St Thomas More. Read the lives of the saints. That's a great program you have. I wish you well with it. 

Good replies! Lives of the saints for me, but either way, we must all live our lives striving for holiness, without which it is impossible to please God.

Some of the Saints and How to Become One:

In the lives of the saints I have noticed two things they all share.

1) The desire to become a saint

2) A lifelong struggle against the venial sin that stands  between them and sainthood

This represents merely the first stage of three, the so-called Purgative Way.

I'll try to start a project to grow spiritually in virtue and charity and at least do something to achieve perfection, .....
I'm thinking to start by simple things like: never complain about anything and everything I would do, I would try to do it in the best way I can. Maybe consecrating everything I'll do to God before doing it.



Do you guys have anything, books, papal docuмents or anything like that regarding the subject? Thank you.

This sermon helped me a lot...

 

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Hope this helps, God bless you !

I'll try to start a project to grow spiritually in virtue and charity and at least do something to achieve perfection, although that's not a very simple thing to achieve. I'm a 25 y/o lawyer and student and I pray the 3 misteries of the rosary everyday. I have already read the whole bible but I still like to read one or two chapters of the old testament and one or two chapters of the new testament everyday. I pray the morning prayers and I pray before sleep and I attend TLM exclusivelly by a traditionalist priest when it is available (every month I have at least 4 masses). I go to confession once a month. That's basically my spiritual life.

I study 9 hour a day, except on saturdays and sundays, when I decrease the amount of time studying (it is my daily obligation to study like that, because I must study very much to get the job I want, since the test is very hard, and also to provide for my family).

I'm thinking to start by simple things like: never complain about anything and everything I would do, I would try to do it in the best way I can. Maybe consecrating everything I'll do to God before doing it.



Do you guys have anything, books, papal docuмents or anything like that regarding the subject? Thank you.

The bolded and underlined needs to be addressed because you may already have the wrong idea.  Perfection is not something that is achieved, it is a Habitual Grace and a Gift from God.  It might be the way you worded it and you didn't mean it the way it sounds but it kind of came across as the Buddhist way of "achieving perfection" by your own efforts or something to that degree.  I know you didn't say that directly but it came across that way and I'm just making sure you didn't mean it that way.    

I don't perceive buddhism here.

Matthew 5: 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: 45 That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

46 For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? 47 And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this? 48 Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.

and

Matthew 19: 21 Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come follow me.

I didn't say it was for sure just that it could come across that way and I'm making sure he doesn't have the wrong idea.  The quotes are all fine and good but Perfection is still a Gift from God, the quotes don't change that fact.  We must also be careful in quoting Scripture that we apply it as The Church does and not our own interpretations of them. 

One needs Grace to be saved and Grace is understood as a free gift from God and if one is perfected it would be by Grace that God gives to a soul not just by ones own efforts.  This is Church Teaching.  The desire to even want to be a Saint comes from God.

I didn't say it was for sure just that it could come across that way and I'm making sure he doesn't have the wrong idea.  The quotes are all fine and good but Perfection is still a Gift from God, the quotes don't change that fact.  We must also be careful in quoting Scripture that we apply it as The Church does and not our own interpretations of them. 

One needs Grace to be saved and Grace is understood as a free gift from God and if one is perfected it would be by Grace that God gives to a soul not just by ones own efforts.  This is Church Teaching.  The desire to even want to be a Saint comes from God.

My point is that there is nothing untoward in Neto's OP. He has "a project to grow spiritually in virtue and charity and at least do something to achieve perfection".

The verses I quoted are entirely appropriate to his appeal and your misapprehension. Jesus in the sermon on the mount commands from us to take action to achieve perfection. We are not pietists, we are Catholics.

In His communication with the rich young pharisee who keeps all the commandments He invites him to gain perfection through his own efforts.