So Thomas is teaching another year at St Bonaventures. He continues to pray. He discovers another saint through his reading, St Therese of Lisieux. He writes:
It is a wonderful experience to,discover a new saint. For God is greatly magnified and marvelous in each one of His saints: differently in each individual one. There are no two saints alike: but all of them are like God, like Him in a different and special way. Pg 353
Back on day 11 I explained that Catholics don’t worship saints but we sometimes ask them to pray for us to God. After all they are sitting in heaven already so it can’t hurt. They can also teach us various aspects of how to lead a holy life. Their lives tend to be very interesting and relatable, at least to me. They are people who struggled with doubts. Some were great thinkers like St Thomas Aquinas. I learned to think methodically through him. St Ignatious Loyola was a soldier so he founded a rapid response force for God. He also was a deep thinker and mystic. St Frances Xavier was one of his first commandos who was a fearless missionary in Asia. St Elizabeth Ann Seton and Dorothy Day were woke before people knew what that was. St Mother Teresa had decades where she didn’t feel close to God but look at all she accomplished.
My prayer today Lord thank you for giving me shining examples of how to live a good holy life. All the saints mentioned above and my dear Thomas Merton, please ask God to increase my faith and strengthen me to do God’s will. Amen
Pax
Joe
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