This enormous gift and aid for living our lives is not found outside of the Church. I struggled with my past sins, but reading what he wrote about that struggle, and praying with him, and through him to Jesus to heal me, I found relief and even friendship that continues to this day. Augustine who had led a life of worldly dissipation, but never found satisfaction in it.
When I first came back to the faith 20 years ago, I greatly identified with St. Reading and learning about their lives brings us encouragement, consolation, and, yes, help! We believe that we can not only learn about the saints, but actually get to know our canonized brothers and sisters through prayer. Wherever you find yourself in this world and in this life, there’s a saint (or many) for that. Are you chronically ill and abandoned? There’s a saint for that. Are you rich and dissatisfied? There’s a saint for that. Are you poor and alone? There’s a saint for that.
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In this great gift we are given role models, holy examples of how to live out this challenging Christian life in every possible circumstance and time. This anti-facet tactic is prominently seen contrary to the facet of faith we call the Communion of Saints.
All are created to distract and move us away us from truth, beauty and goodness, the transcendentals which will naturally draw us to God, their Creator. It seems that every important facet of our beautiful Catholic faith has a secular anti-facet, designed by the prince of this world.
It is shiny, sparkly, noisy, attractive and endlessly distracting. Our twenty-first century world does its best to keep us away from a contemplative life, away from the things of God.
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