Saints...saints...saints

[kafka]

[quote name='Didacus' post='1447218' date='Jan 17 2008, 08:57 PM']So many to choose from...

Jean-Paul the Great.[/quote]

which one?

I

or

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[MissyP89]

St. Maria Goretti. My patron...I didn't know her story when I chose her, ironically.

Champion of purity!

She's been such a role model for me since my return to the Church. Purity has always been a struggle for me as a teen, and knowing that she gave her life to protect Allessandro's and her own always blows me away. I look to her in my relationship with my boyfriend; it helps to not let my feelings get the best of me.

www.mariagoretti.org

[ruso]

St Francisco Xavier, Patron of the missions, is the Navarra, the same kingdom of Spain that I live.

Apostles Santiago, St Paul and St. John.

St. Teresa of Avila, I love your books.

Edited January 19, 2008 by ruso

[Saint Therese]

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[cathoholic_anonymous]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1447119' date='Jan 17 2008, 11:34 PM']Right now I'd have to say St. Margaret of Scotland. She was someone who wanted to be a nun, but ended up marrying a man who needed civilizing. That seems to be the vocational path I have also taken.[/quote]

[Adrestia]

[quote name='phivan' post='1446925' date='Jan 17 2008, 02:23 AM']I thought it would be nice to find out everyone's ONE favorite saint (one only please) so who's yours?[/quote]
St. Martin de Porres
[img]http://www.wf-f.org/WFFResource/StMartindePorres.jpg[/img]
[quote name='phivan']Can you tell one to three best words about him or her?[/quote]
charity, humility, faith
[quote name='phivan']How does this saint influence you in your vocation journey? Please include words on the above question .[/quote]
St. Martin, a Dominican, is a model for me in every aspect of my life. Whatever I do, be it my 9-5 that pays the bills, my church volunteer work, hanging out with my friends, etc., I try to do with the charity, humility and faith required of all Catholics. I identify with St. Martin a little more closely because of the racism that he faced both in and outside of the church.
[quote name='phivan']Do you know any good Roman catholic website about your saint on the internet/cyberspace?[/quote]
[url="http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1188"]http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/S...ult.asp?id=1188[/url]
[url="http://www.wf-f.org/StMartindePorres.html"]http://www.wf-f.org/StMartindePorres.html[/url]
[url="http://www.opsouth.org/martin.htm"]http://www.opsouth.org/martin.htm[/url]

[Innocent]

[quote name='phivan' post='1446925' date='Jan 17 2008, 02:53 PM']I thought it would be nice to find out everyone's ONE favorite saint (one only please) so who's yours?[/quote]

St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer


[img]http://multimedia.opusdei.org/pr/imgjpg/pr_saintjos2.jpg[/img]

[quote name='phivan' post='1446925' date='Jan 17 2008, 02:53 PM']Now, please allow me to challege you a little...
Can you tell one to three best words about him or her?[/quote]
"Divine Filiation"; (Alternatively, "Lay Secular Vocation")

[quote name='phivan' post='1446925' date='Jan 17 2008, 02:53 PM']How does this saint influence you in your vocation journey? Please include words on the above question .[/quote]
I'm trying to live a Christian life while being a student at an engineering college.

[quote name='phivan' post='1446925' date='Jan 17 2008, 02:53 PM']Do you know any good Roman catholic website about your saint on the internet/cyberspace?[/quote]

[url="http://www.ideasrapidas.org/opusdeimap.htm"]IdeasRapidas.org[/url]

[url="http://www.opusdei.us"]The Opus Dei US Website[/url]

[url="http://www.escrivaworks.org/"]The Complete Works of St. Escriva online.[/url]

[url="http://www.stjosemaria.org/"]St. Josemaria Institute.[/url]

Edited January 22, 2008 by Innocent

[phivan]

I enjoy knowing all of your "ONE" favorite saints and getting to know your vocational journeys through your saint (s). There were a couple of them that I'm not familiar and I had to 'google'. As a result, I have more saint-friends than I first started this. Thanks so much!

I'm looking forward to heard some more...

Blessings

[Thomist-in-Training]

St. Thomas Aquinas

Mmm... humility, study, Eucharistic devotion

How has he helped me in my vocation journey? He took an edge off my pride by NOT giving me any stunning flashes of insight when I visited his tomb. I don't know, even before I knew much about him I was sort of inordinately fond of him (I think it was partly thanks to Mr. Chesterton's book, "The Dumb Ox") which gave me a hint about the Dominicans.

[julielizabet]

I haven't been around in awhile, but this "favorite saint" post inspired me to reply.

I feel like every other month I have a new favorite, and a few of you have already mentioned my abiding favorites: Sts. Therese and Teresa, the amazing Carmelites. And I am not including in my response the Queen of All Saints, Our Most Blessed Mother! I think that She goes without saying. If I had to pick just one, she'd be The One. God picked Her. So do I.

But I really do love [b]St. Isidore the Farmer. [/b]He's one of the more obscure saints but in the town my family's from, one of the parishes bears his name. He was a simple farmer (actually, farm worker or laborer) from Madrid who was married, had one child who died very young. (His wife is also a saint, and her head is incorrupt, if I remember correctly. We know less about her, though.) He was poor, not a religious, not a learned man, but loved God and was very holy. It is said that while he went to attend mass, the angels would plow and work in his stead. He inspires me, as many of the other notably "practical" saints do, that it is possible to live normal lives in the world and still grow in holiness. If we love God above all things and try our best in all endeavors with what God gives us, we may become the humblest and greatest of saints.

Now, let me try to find a link with at least a bio:
[url="http://www.savior.org/saints/isidore.htm"]http://www.savior.org/saints/isidore.htm[/url]
(God bless those Pink Sisters for the link! I almost entered there...)

And they reminded me of the wonderful St. Margaret Clitherow. And who could forget St. Thomas More? What about Mother Cabrini? Dominic Savio? St. Germaine? St. Martin of Torres? Venerable Pauline Jaricot [url="http://www.catholictradition.org/Saints/jaricot.htm"]http://www.catholictradition.org/Saints/jaricot.htm[/url] ? There are so many, how can we possibly pick????? Thank God the Church doesn't make us pick just one, and we can call on as many as we want for their prayers at the Throne of Our Lord!!!!

[Selah]

Ker-BUMP!

I love St. Francis of Assisi. He is my patron saint, and what a great man he was! He gave up everything, even the clothes on his back, for Christ. He rebuilt a church with his own hands. And he loved animals!

I also like St. Frances De Sales. He went to convert the calvinists back to Catholics. That means a lot to me, because I struggled a lot while in calvinism, and I believe his prayers lead me to the church :-)

[Caramelonion]

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence

I feel an affinity to her because she too is a convert and entered clositered religious life at a relative late age.

[fides quarens intellectum]

favorite saint: St Paul.

three words: oops, follow, instruct

personal: i couldn't make it without the instructions he left us for how to lead a Christian life.

[RosaMystica]

Aside from Our Lady, the Queen of all saints, who is my patron saint--
Favorite Saint: St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church
He is called the Harp of the Holy Spirit and rightly so. His hymns on virginity, the Nativity, and the Mother of God are beyond amazing. I love the hymns he wrote for the Chaldean Liturgy as well, and I'm very much inspired by his humility and his life of poverty. He is the only Doctor of the Church who wasn't ordained a priest and he's also an eastern saint!

Edited June 12, 2008 by RosaMystica

[inperpetuity]

St. Teresa of Avila. Foundress of the Carmelite Reform. Doctor of the Church. She taught me how to pray.