Favourite saints

niamhstokes

Who is your favourite saint and why? and what is your favourite sayings by them?

I love Saint Francis of Assisi and i have many favourite sayings but i do love this one most:

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

hinault

Saint Thomas.

Even though Thomas had witnessed Jesus and His ministry and he had heard what Jesus said, Thomas doubted the word of his fellow apostles when they told him that Jesus had been resurrected.

So even a man, a saint, who had direct experience of Jesus, who had seen what Jesus did, Thomas was still human enough to doubt.

Of course, when Thomas did see the risen Jesus, he believed.

washiskin

St Martin de Porres - a selfless soul who persevered with his desire to serve God even in the face of rejection & hostility from the order that would eventually see the light within him.

A kind & gentle presence in the life of anyone who asks for his help & inspires life-long devotion.

Manach

Always a triad of saints: St. Thomas as for the very similar reasons of Hinault, St. Thomas More (for wit, learning and faithfulness) and St. Jude of the lost causes.

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I always love how Paul referred to the Saints who were at Ephesus. One of my favourite books.

indy_man

Padre Pio - Read some of the great things he has said. I also believe he is still very active from the other side helping people to repentance. What a Saint.

http://padrepiodevotions.org/padre-pios-words/

Prayer is the best weapon we possess. It is the key that opens the heart of God.

Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.

The earth could exist more easily without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

indy_man

St Louis De Montfort

This is a must read and the corresponding consecration is amazing
http://www.ewtn.com/library/montfort/truedevo.htm


This is from True Devotion.

62. If then we are establishing sound devotion to our Blessed Lady, it is only in order to establish devotion to our Lord more perfectly, by providing a smooth but certain way of reaching Jesus Christ. If devotion to our Lady distracted us from our Lord, we would have to reject it as an illusion of the devil. But this is far from being the case. As I have already shown and will show again later on, this devotion is necessary, simply and solely because it is a way of reaching Jesus perfectly, loving him tenderly, and serving him faithfully.

georgieporgy

All the saints are pretty interesting when you get to know them. But if I had to pick a favourite I think it would have to be Josemaria Escriva, a modern saint, who teaches us to be contemplatives in the midst of the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2HdieBhQQk

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St. Maximillian Kolbe- just strikes me as an all round badass. Wrote riveting pamphlets exposing the dangers of modernism, Communism and Freemasonry. Set up his own newspaper and mission. His superiors could no longer handle him, so he was "exiled" to Japan. Came back to Poland just before WW2 and ended up going to Auschwitz instead of another man who was initially picked by the Germans for the gas chamber. An extraordinary figure.

noel farrell

The all have one thing in common the are dead. Why not pray to the father through Jesus . as we are told by scripture. Both are alive

Manach

Late entry, St. Catherine of Sieni who is invoking for illiteracy for those incapable of following the most simple of guidelines.

noel farrell

Sorry I forgot to pick a favourite St .well I met a few at service this morning all alive and kicking . we prayed together I can't pick one in particular. If you read your bible carefully, you will see Paul was writing to living St .however its my humble opinion everyone is intitiled to theirs god bless

lazybones32

There are many whose lives and teachings inspire, challenge and convict me but the top would be Abba Antony, Anthony of Padua and Teresa of Avila.

My favourite quote is from Teresa. She wrote that Christ spoke these words to her: "I would gladly speak to more souls but the noise of the world makes such a din in them, that I cannot make my voice heard".

indy_man

noel farrell wrote: »

The all have one thing in common the are dead. Why not pray to the father through Jesus . as we are told by scripture. Both are alive

Yes Noel all prayer should ultimately all end up with Jesus but sometimes it can be passed humbly onto Jesus via a saints prayers and intercession. You do know we are not asking a saint to grant us our petitions but to simply lay them at the feet of our Lord as we are not worthy sometimes ourselves. So lets not create more division as division is diabolical. You do know even Martin Luther asked Our Lady for intercession in prayer. But most of all, saints give us great examples of how to live a holy life and one devoted to the love of the Lord plus give great wisdom and writings. See any of the early Church fathers who both Catholic and Protestants share such as St Augustine.

indy_man

Pablo Agreeable Teamster wrote: »

St. Maximillian Kolbe- just strikes me as an all round badass. Wrote riveting pamphlets exposing the dangers of modernism, Communism and Freemasonry. Set up his own newspaper and mission. His superiors could no longer handle him, so he was "exiled" to Japan. Came back to Poland just before WW2 and ended up going to Auschwitz instead of another man who was initially picked by the Germans for the gas chamber. An extraordinary figure.

Completely agree what a saint, this is a good documentary. In the end he dies a very cruel death amazing what this one Saint has done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THT5QxhCiGE