The Saints
To most Roman Catholics, the saints are the members of an exclusive club of departed Catholics who had been canonised by the Vatican. But the Bible says that all true believers are saints. For example, in his letter to the Colossians, the apostle Paul greets them, “To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse.” He addresses Christians as “saints,” “faithful” (believers), and “brethren.” He is not writing to three groups; no, rather saints, faithful and brethren are designations of the same people. Who, then, are the saints? According to Catholicism, the saints are those individuals who are canonised by the Pope after their death. But the New Testament repeatedly says that all Christians are saints, even during their lifetime, and even though they are sill subject to error and sin. Paul did not write his epistle to the saints in heaven, but to ordinary Christians. So, whether they live in Colosse in the first century, or in Siġġiewi in the twenty-first century, al