a vision, a goal, a way of life that is so much above our possibilities! For even the Apostles, when they heard their Master’s teaching, asked Him in despair: “but how is this possible?” It is not easy, indeed, to reject a petty ideal of life made up of daily cares, of search for material goods, security, and pleasure, for an ideal of life in which nothing short of perfection is the goal: “be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” This world through all its “media” says: be happy, take