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in their grasp of the two Great Commandments of Jesus: to love God with everything they are and have, and from this great passion to love and serve their fellow human beings to the nth degree. In the hands of a Saint, all the routine, humdrum stuff of the daily grind, becomes a holy and fragrant offering in a continuous spirit of thanksgiving for the grace to be. Saints respond with equal inner peace to positive and negative events in their lives. It is a peace that baffles most of the rest of the world, and it comes, as St. Francis de Sales wrote in a letter to a friend, "when we resign ourselves to live humbly and quietly in a state of war." |
so suffused by Christ's teachings and life, that they become, somewhat paradoxically more uniquely and absolutely themselves. Being so intimately connected to that energy, that radioactive goodness, Grace, released into the world through the life, death, resurrection, ascension,and descent of the Holy Spirit of Jesus, they themselves become new Christs and living transmitters of His sacred energy in as many ways as people are designed. When we make contact with them by means of prayer, by studying their lives, and by carefully reviewing and learning by hearttheir words and works, we can tap into their virtues, form friendships with them, and seek their assistance in times of need. |
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made easier for us because we are united to them through the
beautiful fringe-benefit of being a member of the Mystical Body
of Christ, the capacity to be linked to what the Church in her
wisdom has called THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS As an artist, I have felt drawn throughout my life to find out as much as I could about the life, times, and writings of the Saints, hoping that this would make it possible for me to see the light they have to shed for people of our time. I hoped to plug in to the glow and flow of the energy that will enable us to come to know our Divine Saviour more fully and more intensely through, as it were, an expansion of the gospel teachings which each particular Saint held most dear and which inspired his or her actions on earth. Believing that credible and lively images might enable others to share in this energy, I have over the years designed, and with my husband's assistance made, images of the Saints set out below. |
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SAINTS-MADE-TO-ORDER SERVICE or of the patron Saint of your parish! |
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