Who Is Your Favorite Saint or Saints?

All the saints of the Church are very important. The men and women who lived their lives in fidelity to the Truth which is Jesus Christ and His Church are an inspiration to us all.

Even so, we all have a saint or saints that inspire us the most, and that we greatly admire. Sometimes it is our Patron Saint, and sometimes it is several saints.

So, I am going to ask you all to send an email to me, and tell me who your favorite saint or saints are. To make it easier for me to compile the results, I ask that you send them by Friday, 18 June, 2011. Please limit your selections to three saints, and please put "Favorite Saints" in the subject of the email.

I hope to be able to post the results within a week of the end date, depending on the number of responses I receive.

Thank you in advance for taking the time out of your busy day to respond!

Saint Columba

O Lord, grant us that love which can never die, which will enkindle our lamps but not extinguish them, so that they may shine in us and bring light to others. Most dear Savior, enkindle our lamps that they may shine forever in your temple. May we receive unquenchable light from yo so that our darkness will be illuminated and the darkness of the world will be made less. Amen. 

-- Saint Columba

Saint Odilia

 

 

I have chosen the Cross.

-- Saint Odilia

Saint Augustine of Hippo

The body dies when the soul departs; but the soul dies when God departs.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Jerome

You say in your book that while we live we are able to pray for each other, but afterwards when we have died, the prayer of no person for another can be heard.... But if the apostles and martyrs while still in the body can pray for others, at a time when they ought still be solicitous about themselves, how much more will they do so after their crowns, victories, and triumphs? 

-- Saint Jerome

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Earthly life is a pilgrimage, and as such it is full of temptations. But our spiritual growth is worked out in temptation. By experiencing temptations, we know ourselves. By fighting them we have a chance to become winners. By overcoming them, we are crowned victors. Lord, you are our physician, healing the ills of all.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Elizebeth Ann Seton

The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.

-- Saint Elizebeth Ann Seton