What are Your Choices Adding up to?

The April 10, 2011 issue of National Catholic Register features an interview with filmmaker Roland Joffe, director of "There Be Dragons." One of the characters in the movie is St. Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei. Joffe declares himself to be agnostic, but he has a profound respect for Escriva. He states:

"When you think about a saint you're not really thinking about a sort of continuum. You're thinking about lots of acts - lots of times when different things could have been chosen, but certain things were. So, I felt with Josemaria's life, what I was looking at was a series of choices. And if you imagine those like beads on a necklace, you could say that after many choices have been made, this man was a saint. But eit was each individual act that counts."