[matthewrobertolson]

With the help of God's general grace and the Sacraments that He instituted (which are instruments of His grace), along with a faithful disposition, I can be holy. Scripture teaches this, as I have demonstrated.

The Church rejects the notion of "total depravity".

“If any one is truly religious, he is a man of God; but if he is irreligious, he is a man of the devil, made such, not by nature, but by his own choice.” – St. Ignatius of Antioch

“‘But unto them that are contentious,’ he [St. Paul] says [in Romans 2:8]. Again, he deprives of excuse those that live in wickedness, and shows that it is from a kind of disputatiousness and carelessness that they fall into unrighteousness. ‘And do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.’ See, here is another accusation again. For what defense can he set up, who flees from the light and chooses the dark? And he does not say, who are ‘compelled by,’ ‘lorded over by,’ but who ‘obey unrighteousness,’ that one may learn that the fall is one of free choice, the crime not of necessity.” – St. John Chrysostom

[mlizzy]

With the help of God's general grace and the Sacraments that He instituted (which are instruments of His grace), along with a faithful disposition, I can be holy. Scripture teaches this, as I have demonstrated.

Without a doubt, we are all called to be holy. Thank you for posting Scripture previously in this regard. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who was an ardent promoter of Eucharistic Adoration, said in a letter she wrote to a local parish that houses a Eucharistic Adoration chapel:

But, unless we have Jesus, we cannot give Him; that is why we need the Eucharist. Spend as much time as possible in front of the Blessed Sacrament and He will fill you with His strength and His power... --Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 7-15-96 http://adorationrocks.com/letter.html

In my own life, I can readily say that I am almost indistinguishable from my lukewarm Lutheran former self. I ran into an acquaintance some ten years ago, and she said if she didn't know ahead of time she was talking to ME (like if she was blindfolded), she wouldn't have believed it was I. "His strength and His power" indeed! And from Fr. Mark Kirby:

Do souls believe in My Real Presence in the tabernacles of My churches? Have they altogether forgotten who I am and where I am to be found? Has the faith of My priests in the Sacrament of My Love grown so tepid and so weak that the souls entrusted to them have lost the simple instinct of the believing heart, that is, to seek Me out in the Most Holy Eucharist, and to abide in My presence, loving Me, and allowing Me to love freely those who come to Me, to heal their wounds, and to draw them into the sanctuary of My open Side? http://vultus.stblogs.org/index.php/2014/01/abide-in-my-presence/