We Are ALL Saints!

Janet & Bridgett discuss sainthood and holiness - can you see yourself as a saint?

Resources:

• "Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint...They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems." (Thomas Merton) 
• Letters to Myself from the End of the World: Emily Stimpson Chapman 
• Favorite Saint Teresa of Calcutta books: 

1. A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
2. No Greater Love Mother Teresa and Thomas Moore
3. Come Be My Light: Mother Teresa

• Catechism of the Catholic ChurchReference links:  823, 828, 946, 363, 366

Definition links (via Catechism Glossary):

• Saint
• Canonization
• Soul
• Holiness
• Purgatory

 
Baby Steps:

• Remember that God loves you! You are a saint and you are holy, so live your life today as if you believe it!
• Pray for the dead, especially your deceased family members, and ask for their intercession.

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