Couldn't agree more! If they but knew the infinite treasure they have been given maybe then they'd take better care of protecting it, and of thanking and loving God all the more for it. St. Thomas says that by profession, the religious offer h0Ɩ0cαųst to God. This spiritual h0Ɩ0cαųst is the holiest most fruitful sacrifice after the Sacrifice of the Mass and martyrdom. What are we doing here if not offering ourselves as a continual sacrifice to mirror the Sacrifice of our Jesus? And if God so wills, what better place to offer ourselves than in religion?

A beautiful example from Father Lessius,

If a gardener were to plant a precious seed, requiring great care, in stony ground, covered with thorns; if he exposed it to the rays of the sun and every change of climate to try would it grow in that unfavourable spot, who would not look upon him as a fool? Those who advise people called to religious life to remain, for a while, in the world have even less sense. A vocation is a divine fruit for eternal life. It is planted in the human heart, a soil little suited to its nature, and requires great care and attention. Watch must be kept that the birds of the air, the demons, do not carry it away; that thorns, the concupiscences and solicitudes of the world, do not choke it; that men with their false maxims should not trample it under foot. Whosoever wishes to preserve and see grow in his heart the seed which the Divine Sower has cast there, ought to fly from the world and reach a safe refuge as soon as possible.

Let us pray to St. Gerard Majella that those who feel a first movement of inspiration may correspond to it immediately, that nothing may hinder their pursuit, and that they be not weary in well doing once they get there. With the same joy and resolution he did, may they be able to say to all who try to stop them, "I am going away to be a Saint!"