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Catholic AnswerHoliness comes about through doing the will of God, through taking up our cross and following Our Blessed Lord. Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes:

He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows. (St. Gregory of Nyssa, Hom. in Cant. 8: (J.P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca {Paris, 1857-1866} 44, 941C.)

Holy Orders involves following the Will of God for you, IF He is calling you to the priesthood. If you receive that call, then you must answer it and follow His Will for you in order to achieve holiness, but, as with any other way, it will involve suffering and the denying of your own will, just as Our Blessed Lord denied His Own Will and followed the Father's Will for Him by dying on the cross.

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