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Did you choose the saint’s you pray too?
Or did the saint’s choose you?
Or did the saint’s choose you?
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petra22
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For some reason, St. Vincent chose me this year. He was a deacon and a martyr. Maybe it’s because he stood so strongly for Jesus and that was my intention for the year…? IDK, but I feel he chose me…
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amazingcatholic
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Both. Clare is my baptismal name, so I pray to her. I really love Mother Teresa, Pope JP II, St. Monica, St. Rose and St. Therese, so I pray to them. St. Mary Magdalene chose me. I really relate to her and I sensed she wanted to be my friend.
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MagdalenaRita
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IMHO God brought them into my life. They seem to fit just perfect.
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Peonies
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All of the saints who I consider friends are ones that I chose, except St. Anne. My parents chose her many years ago when they named me.
It would be awesome to have a saint pick me for a friend, but no one has. I am very grateful for the saints who intercede for me on a daily basis!
It would be awesome to have a saint pick me for a friend, but no one has. I am very grateful for the saints who intercede for me on a daily basis!
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OurLadyofSorrows
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The saints I identify with mostly are women who are early church martyrs, and St John Paul II. I found a card to St John Paul II, and am inspired and awed by these early Christian women.
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Kindnessmatters
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What a great question!
I think both. I started praying to the archangels after developing curiosity about the prayer to St. Michael at the end of mass. I didn’t remember that prayer from my childhood bit it became the practice while I was estranged from the church.
My faith, and in some ways my life, were saved by a priest named Michael and though it may sound crazy, I believe God worked through him and that St. Michael had a hand in it. This priest was not “my priest”…he was my friend many years before he was a priest and never in a million years could I have guessed or imagined how much he would help me through horrible circumstances, or how important our friendship would become.
I have needed guidance and wisdom in my faith and career so pray to St. Gabriel. I have faced terrible people who have done unconscionable things in my career so I pray to St. Michael to help me avoid bad people in my job search. I pray to St. Raphael to accompany me and lead me to answers to my challenges. St. Raphael was revealed to me by my parish priest.
I pray to Mary for concerns related to family. I pray to St. Joseph for work, and to St. Francis to look over my sweet, old dog.
I only recently started learning about and praying through the saints. My mind is more at peace for it.
I have sought other saints proactively by looking up
I think both. I started praying to the archangels after developing curiosity about the prayer to St. Michael at the end of mass. I didn’t remember that prayer from my childhood bit it became the practice while I was estranged from the church.
My faith, and in some ways my life, were saved by a priest named Michael and though it may sound crazy, I believe God worked through him and that St. Michael had a hand in it. This priest was not “my priest”…he was my friend many years before he was a priest and never in a million years could I have guessed or imagined how much he would help me through horrible circumstances, or how important our friendship would become.
I have needed guidance and wisdom in my faith and career so pray to St. Gabriel. I have faced terrible people who have done unconscionable things in my career so I pray to St. Michael to help me avoid bad people in my job search. I pray to St. Raphael to accompany me and lead me to answers to my challenges. St. Raphael was revealed to me by my parish priest.
I pray to Mary for concerns related to family. I pray to St. Joseph for work, and to St. Francis to look over my sweet, old dog.
I only recently started learning about and praying through the saints. My mind is more at peace for it.
I have sought other saints proactively by looking up
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DeSales111
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I second what Kindnessmaters says, I think both as well. I’ve always really liked Saint Francis of Assisi even as a child because he really reflects the love of Christ. I can be mad at something and start humming the Make Me A Channel of Your Peace song and I’m instantly calmed down. So I chose him on this one.
Then after being away from the Church for over 25 years, coming back after a demonic attack, another Saint named Francis found me, Saint Francis De Sales. My renewed faith came under attack by a Protestant right away, and when I would go to bed still needing answers to defend my Catholic faith I would wake up in the middle of the night or in the morning and the answer would be something he had said. I was eventually led to the book The Catholic Controversy, by far the best written defense of the Catholic faith I’ve ever read.
But here is the coolest part. I never told a soul he had become my favorite Saint. On the first Father’s Day after my dad passed away, my mother wanted to give my brother and I a special gift in remembrance of our father. My brothers gift was my grandmother’s old rosary, really special to him. Then it was my turn to open mine, I was so shocked and lost for words… It was a first class relic from Saint Francis De Sales!!! A true miracle indeed. He not only found me in spirit, a physical part of him found me as well.
And get this, I now have one more Saint in heaven with the name Francis. Not knowing the gender of our child when my wife was pregnant early this year, we chose the middle name Francis because it can be used as a boy or girls name. We sadly lost our child to a miscarriage, but when my wife cried out to God that she just wanted to know the gender of our child an unplugged lamp lit up bright pink twice later that day. We then knew it was a baby girl, we then chose her a first name, after Saint Catherine. Our daughters name to us, we call her “Katie Francis.”
So there are my fav Saints and how we all came together, bound by the love of Christ, and family forever. It’s awesome to be Catholic and having no walls to separate us from our family in heaven!!!
Then after being away from the Church for over 25 years, coming back after a demonic attack, another Saint named Francis found me, Saint Francis De Sales. My renewed faith came under attack by a Protestant right away, and when I would go to bed still needing answers to defend my Catholic faith I would wake up in the middle of the night or in the morning and the answer would be something he had said. I was eventually led to the book The Catholic Controversy, by far the best written defense of the Catholic faith I’ve ever read.
But here is the coolest part. I never told a soul he had become my favorite Saint. On the first Father’s Day after my dad passed away, my mother wanted to give my brother and I a special gift in remembrance of our father. My brothers gift was my grandmother’s old rosary, really special to him. Then it was my turn to open mine, I was so shocked and lost for words… It was a first class relic from Saint Francis De Sales!!! A true miracle indeed. He not only found me in spirit, a physical part of him found me as well.
And get this, I now have one more Saint in heaven with the name Francis. Not knowing the gender of our child when my wife was pregnant early this year, we chose the middle name Francis because it can be used as a boy or girls name. We sadly lost our child to a miscarriage, but when my wife cried out to God that she just wanted to know the gender of our child an unplugged lamp lit up bright pink twice later that day. We then knew it was a baby girl, we then chose her a first name, after Saint Catherine. Our daughters name to us, we call her “Katie Francis.”
So there are my fav Saints and how we all came together, bound by the love of Christ, and family forever. It’s awesome to be Catholic and having no walls to separate us from our family in heaven!!!
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BigRon
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Good question.
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SeekerOfTruth7
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When I first believed in Communion with the Saints during my conversion to the Church, i felt called so tremendously called to pray to St. Augustine. And I found a wonderful prayer to him online and now pray it all the time.
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