Pope Francis Canonizes Seven New Saints

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Rosario Brochero is an interesting choice for sainthood. The fact that he struggled with leprosy for so long is indicative of God’s displeasure with him. But still, if he fulfilled the prerequisites for sainthood, who can argue. :confused:
 
Rosario Brochero is an interesting choice for sainthood. The fact that he struggled with leprosy for so long is indicative of God’s displeasure with him. But still, if he fulfilled the prerequisites for sainthood, who can argue. :confused:
Are you being serious?
 
Psalm 35:27, 3 John 2, Proverbs 10:22, Ecclesiastes 5:19
Not a single one of those proof texts says that good fortune is indicative of God’s favor, which is what you initially claimed. I see your gross non-sequitur and raise you John 16:33, 2 Corinthians 1:1-11, and Matthew 5:45.
 
Not a single one of those proof texts says that good fortune is indicative of God’s favor, which is what you initially claimed. I see your gross non-sequitur and raise you John 16:33, 2 Corinthians 1:1-11, and Matthew 5:45.
Genesis 24:35, Job 42:12, Joshua 1:8
 
Genesis 24:35, Job 42:12, Joshua 1:8
Again, these verses do not imply what you think they imply. I’m not denying that God blesses people with good health and prosperity (or the converse; that he may curse people with disease and misfortune). I’m taking issue with your statement that we can infer God’s pleasure or displeasure with a particular person based on nothing more than their wellbeing.

I actually find it strikingly odd that you would dare cite anything from the story of Job as a defense of your position seeing as God allowed misfortune to happen to him despite his being a righteous man. This is a serious question: if you were among Jesus’ disciples when he walked the Earth and witnessed his curing the congenitally blind man (John chapter 9), would you have been among those who asked him “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
 
I have absolutely no idea who any of them are :o, but YAY! 😃
Yay indeed! The last one, Elizabeth Catez, now St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, was a Carmelite nun in Dijon, France; she was beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1984. Here are links about her, and her famous Prayer to the Trinity, by way of introduction. 🙂

catholicnewsagency.com/news/who-was-elizabeth-of-the-trinity-the-story-behind-a-new-saint-86118/

catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=7157

Prayer to the Blessed Trinity

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O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely that I may be established in You as still and as peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing trouble my peace or make me leave You, O my Unchanging One, but may each minute carry me further into the depths of Your Mystery. Give peace to my soul; make it Your heaven, Your beloved dwelling and Your resting place. May I never leave You there alone but be wholly present, my faith wholly vigilant, wholly adoring, and wholly surrendered to Your creative Action.

O my beloved Christ, crucified by love, I wish to be a bride for Your Heart; I wish to cover You with glory; I wish to love You… even unto death! But I feel my weakness, and I ask You to “clothe me with Yourself,” to identify my soul with all the movements of Your Soul, to overwhelm me, to possess me, to substitute Yourself for me that my life may be but a radiance of Your Life. Come into me as Adorer, as Restorer, as Savior. O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life in listening to You, to become wholly teachable that I may learn all from You. Then, through all nights, all voids, all helplessness, I want to gaze on You always and remain in Your great light. O my beloved Star, so fascinate me that I may not withdraw from Your radiance.
O consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, “come upon me,” and create in my soul a kind of incarnation of the Word: that I may be another humanity for Him in which He can renew His whole Mystery. And You, O Father, bend lovingly over Your poor little creature; “cover her with Your shadow,” seeing in her only the “Beloved in whom You are well pleased.”

O my Three, my All, my Beatitude, infinite Solitude, Immensity in which I lose myself, I surrender myself to You as Your prey. Bury Yourself in me that I may bury myself in You until I depart to contemplate in Your light the abyss of Your greatness. AMEN.
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, 21 November 1904
 
Rosario Brochero is an interesting choice for sainthood. The fact that he struggled with leprosy for so long is indicative of God’s displeasure with him. But still, if he fulfilled the prerequisites for sainthood, who can argue. :confused:
Who was it that commented on Joan of Arc by saying something to the effect of, “God loves His friends in the strangest of ways?” 🙂
 
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