Posted on 11/01/2009 2:19:13 AM PST by mlizzy
"The only mistake in life is not to become a Saint."
When I first heard the above quote (perhaps a FIT reader will recall who said it) as a student at the University of Notre Dame, it really made me think. It was at a time when, after falling away from my child-like enthusiasm for Catholicism, I was coming back to the Faith but struggling to accept it as a man. But just as those too-perfect pictures of the Saints had hooked me as a youth, the realistic struggles of the Saints to follow Christ was what sealed the deal for me as an adult.
As a student, I was trained to look for similarities and differences, and in the Saints' stories, there were scores of each in both categories. To a man (or woman), the Saints all loved Our Lady, and all lived through the sacraments, especially the Blessed Sacrament. They all rigorously defended (even unto death) the primacy of the Pope, and all looked to the Church to define doctrinal differences. But their differences were perhaps even more amazing.
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"The only mistake in life is not to become a Saint."
"The only mistake in life is not to become a Saint."
"The only mistake in life is not to become a Saint."
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And happy All Saints Day to you!
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