I love the Saints. I love that the Church gives them to us, raises them up so that we can see what holiness looks like lived out in this life. I love that they point to something better, brighter. What we see in shadows, little hints in the sacrament of the everyday, the heavenly saints behold in full glory. Here in the shadowlands we strain for a pale shimmer of heavenly sunrise, while they stand in full sun.
Tag Archives: redemptive suffering
Pope: Patience Keeps Us from Becoming Closed Off
During morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta earlier this week, the Pope spoke about a virtue that doesn’t come easy to most of us – patience – but how necessary it is to prevent ourselves from becoming “closed off.”
Seminarian With Brain Cancer Addresses Brittany Maynard
Philip Johnson
A young seminarian with incurable brain cancer is praying that 29 year-old Brittany Maynard, who is suffering the same plight and publicly announced plans to take her life with prescription drugs on November 1, is asking her to choose to fight instead so that her life and witness can be an example and inspiration to others.
