Saints

[Brigid]

Saints are not prefabricated.  Too many people seem to think that they had a halo handed to them at their Baptism.  Let's blame some of their biographers who sometimes picture them as a spiritual elite dispensed from the normal struggles and ups and downs of average mortals.  Be sure of one thing: saints are made, not born!

The truth is that they are ordinary persons like ourselves, full of the same miseries, and subject to the same weaknesses.  The start of their great holiness was usually quite simple and ordinary.  In fact, it seems to be a law of Divine Providence that the higher the holiness, the more hidden and simple the beginnings of it.


Fr. Kilian Mcgowan, CP

[martin]

This is so encouraging..  It's hard to remember this when reading about their lives but those stories told by John Bosco about when he was a boy just shows how true the above is. And how the saints help others to become saints like in the case of Jean Vianney with his great devotion to St Philomena obtaining for him so many graces that he too became a saint.
Every one in heaven is a saint so if that's where we want to go, that's what we have to become.

For men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. 

[Brigid]

Every one in heaven is a saint so if that's where we want to go, that's what we have to become.

For men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. 

Amen. Amen!

[Bailey2]

Saints are not prefabricated.  Too many people seem to think that they had a halo handed to them at their Baptism.  Let's blame some of their biographers who sometimes picture them as a spiritual elite dispensed from the normal struggles and ups and downs of average mortals.  Be sure of one thing: saints are made, not born!

The truth is that they are ordinary persons like ourselves, full of the same miseries, and subject to the same weaknesses.  The start of their great holiness was usually quite simple and ordinary.  In fact, it seems to be a law of Divine Providence that the higher the holiness, the more hidden and simple the beginnings of it.


Fr. Kilian Mcgowan, CP