godly traits that combine with love: humility, kindness, joy, peace, patience, and other virtues. The Christian is not expected to be as holy as God is, but the Christian ought to strive to be as holy as possible in this life. In this second sense, holiness can be lost. Holiness is always “on the way” toward the goal of heroic virtue that characterizes the saints in heaven. When we have committed a grave sin (fallen into mortal sin), we still are holy in the sense of once being set apart in baptism,