Saints I Need Now!

Thanks to my first grade teacher, Sister Celeste, and her dramatic stories about holy people, I developed an early fascination with the saints. Once I could read well enough, I devoured every saint book in our school library and dreamed of growing up to be a martyr. Over the years, I looked to the saints for inspiration and turned to them for help.

I still do.

But sometimes I find myself wishing for new saints…special saints…saints who fit the life I'm living right now and the problems I wrestle with every day. I recently wrote about  these saints-that-don't-exist-but-really-should on the Catholic365 site. If you missed it, you can still read about Saint Peter the Podiatrist, Saint Kitkat Goodbar of Hershey, St. Tardia the Venerable Procrastinator, and all my other imaginary saints here. 

Saints I Need -- Now!

Thanks to my first grade teacher, Sister Celeste, and her dramatic stories about holy people, I developed an early fascination with the saints. Once I could read well enough, I devoured every saint book in our school library and dreamed of growing up to be a martyr. Over the years, I looked to the saints for inspiration and turned to them for help.

I still do.

But sometimes I find myself wishing for new saints…special saints…saints who fit the life I'm living right now and the problems I wrestle with every day. I wrote about  these saints-that-don't-exist-but-really-should on the Catholic365 site. You can read about Saint Peter the Podiatrist, Saint Kitkat Goodbar of Hershey, St. Tardia the Venerable Procrastinator, and all my other imaginary saints here. 

Saints Said It!

"There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections." Those words of wisdom come from Saint Vincent de Paul, pictured above.  For more inspirational quotes from the saints, check out my new Facebook page Saints Said It. 

Saints Said It!

"No one heals himself by wounding another." Those words of wisdom come from Saint Ambrose, pictured above. For more inspirational quotes from the saints, check out my new Facebook page Saints Said It.

Saints Alive!

Kids often view the saints as old-time stained-glass figures who have nothing to do with them. Here's a video about the books I wrote to make the saints meaningful to today's kids.