Today, the celebration of St. Josemaría reminds us of the "Good News" that all of us - without exception - are called to seek holiness in the middle of the world. It was not in vain that John Paul II defined the figure of St. Josemaría - on the day of his canonization - as "the Saint of Ordinary Life".

While other authors (St. Francis de Sales, for example) had already suggested that holiness is also a divine call directed to the lay faithful to the Church, St. Josemaría’s message, however, has been prophetic in the 20th century. Actually, the Vatican Council II meant a "Copernican Turn" in the Church’s self-understanding: she is not essentially a hierarchical elite, but she is "God's people", represented by that fishermen boat with which Jesus frequently sailed the sea waters. And it was from there, from some fishermen boat, that He called them to Holiness ("men fishers") without having to leave behind neither sea nor nets.

«Go away from me, Lord, I am a sinful man (...). - Don’t be afraid. From now on you will fish for people » (Lk 5:8-10). The boat, the nets, the sea... They imply no hindrance to holiness: on the contrary, they are an opportunity of Holiness for the majority of the disciples of Christ. In St. Josemaría’s own words, «what amazes you seems natural to me -that God has sought you in the practice of your profession! That is how He sought the first, Peter and Andrew, John and James, beside their nets, and Matthew, sitting in the custom-house’... And – wonder of wonders! Paul, in his eagerness to destroy the seed of Christians».

It is true that they «left everything and followed him» (Lk 5:11), but it is also true that this did not stop them from being what they had always been: workers! The Lord’s request is still valid: «…and let down the nets for a catch » (Lk 5:4).