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THE COMMUNITY OF SAINTS
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Saints are those who were geniuses 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."
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Saints become so bonded to Christ by constant prayer,
fasting, and almsgiving
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. |
This is 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 COMMUNITY 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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