SAINT
The first saints were the first Christians: the apostles, the evangelists, the Virgin Mary, and the early martyrs. The people who had witnessed a martyr’s death knew what he or she had suffered rather than deny Christ, and were sure that everlasting life in heaven was the martyr’s “crown” or reward. Christians believed that saints continued to be present in a special way through their relics or remains. They gathered at the tombs of the martyrs for communion meals and founded churches on their treasured relics.
After the martyrs came the confessors, who confessed their Christianity at great personal risk, but did not actually die for their faith. As Christianity became the faith of the majority of people in the Roman world, new kinds of heroes were recognized as saints, people who denied themselves every physical comfort so as to be closer to God, or learned teachers. Gradually, the saints came to include bishops, monks, and visionaries as well as martyrs.
In the early centuries, it was enough, if people wished to honour the life and death of a saintly person, for the local bishop to add the new saint’s feast day to the Church’s calendar. Then, late in the 12th century, Pope Alexander III decided that in the future saints must be canonized, or listed in the Church’s calendar, by the authorities in Rome. From then on, saints were made after a detailed inquiry into their lives and works. Once past the first stage, a saintly candidate would be declared a saint, he or she had to be shown to have led an especially virtuous life and to have performed a certain number of miracles, which were proof that the dead person was favoured by God.
Canonization affected the rise of shrines and pilgrimages in medieval Europe. The enshrined relics of an officially canonized saint attracted huge numbers of pilgrims. The new rules also affected the number and type of people who were canonized. An 18th century Irish catalog of saints lists 750 individuals, most of whom were venerated in the localities where they had lived, but after the 12th century, it became difficult for a community far from Rome to persuade the Church to canonize a local saint. The most complete record of saints, the 12 volumes of the Bibliotheca Sanctorum, lists more than 10000 saints, but only about 400 of them were canonized by popes after the new rules. The Feast of All Saints on 1 November celebrates all people whose saintliness has gone unrecognized by anyone but God.
Focus on one thing you need in your life and then say these words:
Today there is peace within me.
I trust my highest power that I am exactly where I’m meant to be….
I see the infinite possibilities that are born of faith and belief and will not forget them.
I will use the gifts given to me, and pass on the Love that I have been given….
I will be proud knowing I am a child of God….
This presence is deep in my bones and expands to fill the Universe,
I give my soul the freedom to sing, dance, and express the joy of knowing God.
It is there for each and every one of us, I put away any prejudice, malice, selfishness and let Love express itself through me…
Do It Anyway
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered– Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives– Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies– Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you– Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight– Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous– Be happy anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough– Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God– It was never between you and them anyway.
– Mother Teresa
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