“A saint is one who has learned to spiritualize and sacramentalize and ennoble everything in the world, and make of it a prayer.”
— Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Tag: Saints
Why are there so many saints
Because Jesus Christ’s outreach program for rehabing sinners is super effective.
What’s a saint and can women become them? How? And why? :)
Anyone can become a saint! In fact, we are ALL called to be saints. It should be our highest priority to try and become one (:
A saint is simply a word used to describe a person who is in Heaven! There are PLENTY of female saints!!
In fact, the most Blessed Virgin Mary is the QUEEN of saints.
The reason we know of existing saints is simply because God has allowed us to know them specifically. Their intercession can be attributed directly to miracles and stuff, I don’t know the exact qualifications anymore to be confirmed as a saint, but there are definitely more saints than we know of!
As Mother Angelica says; “We are all called to be great saints. Don’t miss your opportunity.”
I know I’m preaching to the choir, but
SAINTS
Were once
SINNERS
and not every aspect of their life should be imitated.
In fact, be inspired by the saints, but don’t imitate them- you are not meant to be them, you are meant to be your own Saint.
Since this inevitably shows up whenever the “great saint debate” rears its ugly head, let’s talk about Christ’s role as sole mediator for a second. We often use “mediator” and “intercessor” as interchangeable words, because they both involve action on behalf of another, but they’re not the same.
“Mediator” refers to a person reconciling two different parties. “Intercessor” refers to a person approaching a more powerful party on behalf of a less powerful party.
Jesus is the sole Mediator. In His Incarnation, human nature and Divine nature are united in a single Person. That seeming insurmountable gap between humanity and God is closed by the Incarnation specifically because of this hypostatic union. God became man so that man could share in the Divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). The union of humanity and Divinity that occurs microcosmicly in Jesus is the source for the macrocosmic reconciliation between God and man. Does that make sense?
The statement that Jesus is sole Mediator occurs right after Saint Paul calls us to act as intercessors. He asks us to pray on behalf of worldly authorities. Throughout the epistles, we are called to act as intercessors for one another, and Paul himself acts as intercessor by praying on behalf of the Christian communities that he is writing to. We know that this intercession is efficacious as a result of this saving work of Jesus, as He said “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
So, long story short: Jesus is the only Mediator, but He is not the only intercessor. At the same time, however, all intercession is only possible because of Christ’s role as Mediator.
Are saints like mini gods? – a very confused Lutheran Princess
nah. They’re Christians in heaven who can pray for us if we ask them to and provide insight and inspiration on how to live a Christian life and faith.
St. Gianna and her husband Pietro were thirty-two and forty-two when they met. Sts. Louis Martin was thirty-five when he fell in love with his wife, St. Zélie, who was twenty-seven. God doesn’t always bring you your spouse when you’re in your teens or early twenties.
St. Paul Miki, and the Roman Catholic Japanese Martyrs
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