Modern Saints Of The Last One Hundred Years

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Who would you say fit into this category? I begin with Thomas Merton.

-- jean bouchardRC (jeanb@cwk.imag.net), September 15, 1999

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Jean, I know that this isn't what you intended, so please don't take offense if I offer a few side thoughts on this thread, but I consider ALL believers in the Lord Jesus (those who have entered into Christ and are following in His ways) to be saints. I believe that is consistent with the use of the term from the New Testament as well. So with that in mind, I consider my family and I to be saints as much as any of the "canonized" saints. That does not mean I am trying to compare my "spirituality" or impact on the church with them, just recognizing that I am as much in Christ as they were. In addition, I would not make a "test" of sainthood based on healings and miracles achieved AFTER dying. Instead, my "test" would be did healings and miracles occur through me while I was alive. In my view, that strikes more true with the life of saints depicted in the New Testament. Just my opinion, for whatever it's worth.

-- David Bowerman (dbowerman@blazenet.net), September 15, 1999.

David - Thank you the input. My hope is we are all of trying to be saints.

-- jean bouchardRC (jeanb@cwk.imag.net), September 16, 1999.

David, no doubt the NT calls saints those who believe in Christ, but the Catholic Church considers worthy of canonization only those christians who practiced the christian virtues in a HEROIC way, and so not all christians deserve such honor. That's why a canonization process is a long and careful investigation into the life of the proposed person.

Enrique

-- ENRIQUE ORTIZ (eaortiz@yahoo.com), September 16, 1999.


Dear Jean, I think that you could be sitting on a powder keg here. Things tht I find admirable or holy in a person, may not be how others feel. So, I will contribute this answer. Mother Teresa. I don't think too many people would object to her nomination. Ellen

-- Ellen K. Hornby (dkh@canada.com), September 16, 1999.

Aw Come on gang there must be some one out there you are maybe aware of. True Story: NYC 1995 a young street girl who became frined with a priest brought over 400 street people to talk to him. One night at 9:00 P.M. she was knifed and died by another she had brought to speak to the priest. Is she a saint???

-- jean bouchardRC (jeanb@cwk.imag.net), September 17, 1999.


Dear Jean, I do not know personally, the story to which you refer. However, I think that any person, who dies while in the service for others, goes to heaven. Does this make them a saint? Does giving your life for anothers give you a one-way ticket to heaven? For example, if a fireman enters a burning building to save someone, and dies himself. I think this gets him into heaven. Most of the people to which I think you are referring, will never be named as saints by the church, but that in no way, lessons their existence in heaven. Just because a person isn't recognized as a saint, doesn't mean their actions were any less saintly. Ellen

-- Ellen K. Hornby (dkh@canada.com), September 17, 1999.

another saint: the mexican jesuit fr. miguel agustmn pro . during the catholic persecution that brought about the exile of all mexican bishops, the killing of many priests, the closing of all catholic churches, the cristero war from 1926 to 1929, went on ministering in hiding to catholics until he was captured by the police and shot together wih others. i think he was a martyr for Christ.

Enrique

-- ENRIQUE ORTIZ (eaortiz@yahoo.com), September 22, 1999.


Enrique - Thank you another example to our current faith. My hope is soon North American martyrs and others will be brought forward for cannonization. +Peace+

-- jean bouchardRC (jeanb@cwk.imag.net), September 22, 1999.

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