Saint Longinus chose me for 2018

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St. Longinus chose me for 2018!

I read a New Year’s Resolution to pick a saint to accompany you through the year. How do you pick a saint? Go to http://www.catholic.org/saints/
on catholic.org. They have saints listed in alphabetical order. Before I went to the site I picked a number from 1-26 (number of letters in English alphabet), then I picked another number at random (1-99?) -I just checked the letter A and there are a LOT of saints that begin with the letter A so you might have to play around with this second number choice…
When St. Longinus came up with my numbers, I thought who in the world is St. Longinus? I started to move on down the line but took time to look him up and read about him.

St. Longinus is the centurion who pierced the side of Our Lord while He was hanging on the Cross. St. Longinus, who was nearly blind, was healed when some of the blood and water from Jesus fell into his eyes. It was then he exclaimed “Indeed, this was the Son of God!” [Mark 15:39].

Now I know a prayer to say to St. Longinus that will help me for the year. I made it up myself.
“Dear St. Longinus, help me to see the truth that you saw in front of you at the crucifixion… Help me to see clearly this year. Amen”

Some people say when you choose a saint, the saint really chooses YOU. I believe that now!


Try it and tell us which Saint chose you for 2018?
 
Have you discovered why he chose you? Did you find out anything new about him that maybe you should emulate this year???
 
Please, join me in praying for mine and I’ll join you in praying for yours, too!
🙂 St. Longinus and I!
 
Ok, so you pick a saint or there is somewhere on the site an algorithm that a saint is assigned to you?
Edit: Sorry you already told us how to do it.
 
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I am pretty sure that St. Maximilian Kolbe chose me or I chose him about a week ago, although I first heard of him about 25 years ago. I am starting a project about different saints, and I kept feeling drawn to him as my first subject.

My father was a POW during WWII, and this Saint was in Auschwitz. I felt like there was some kind of connection because of that. Although that was my initial first interest in him, he was an amazing man, willing to literally lay down his life for another man.

My youngest son chose him as his confirmation Saint after I told him his story, and about the grandfather he never met. 🙂
 
Your son made a good choice- Maximilian is my confirmation saint, and the reason for my handle on CAF.
 
I did this before the new year started via the patron saint generator site. I was thinking that I would get an obscure saint I do not know much about, then would forget about him or her before half of the year, because that is what happened in the previous years.

Well, I got St. Joseph. He is known to help with employment and finding a good spouse. I happen to be searching for both of these.
 
I got St. Matthew Phuong, catechist and martyr. I never heard of him before, but I’ll be glad to get to know him! I’m working on a prayer for him now.
 
Oh, your story brought tears to my eyes. Happy tears for you and your son and the memory of a grandfather!!!
 
Keep us updated because there are saints we have never heard of and I for one would like to learn more!
 
petra22 said:
Keep us updated because there are saints we have never heard of and I for one would like to learn more!
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Cool! 🙂 So after some Google searches, I’ve learned his full name is St. Matthew Nguyen Van Phuong and he was born in Vietnam in 1801. His parents died when he was young, so he was raised by a priest. He married, became a catechist, and was responsible for finding safe houses for priests to say Mass, to protect them from the persecution. He was caught (don’t know if by betrayal or circumstance), tortured, and beheaded, along with a priest, St. John Hoan.

I’m discerning a religious vocation and one of the communities I’m considering has it’s roots in Vietnam, so maybe that’s why I got this saint. I’m not taking this as a sign that that’s where I’m meant to be, but I will pray to him to help me discern God’s Will. And also for faith and courage, he’s certainly a good example of both!
 
I used your app and got a saint :
St. Raymond Nonnatus
Feast: August 31

Patronage: Against Fever; Childbirth; Children; Expectant Mothers; Falsely Accused People; Infants; Midwives; Obstetricians; Pregnant Women

Strange because it sounds like saint for women and I am a woman but how odd can it be?
“Falsely accused people” - not as far as I know but who knows? Hidden enemies?
Raymund Nonnatus, O. de M. (Catalan: Sant Ramon Nonat, Spanish: San Ramón Nonato, French: Saint Raymond Nonnat, Maltese: San Rajmondo Nonnato), (1204 – 31 August 1240) is a saint from Catalonia in Spain. His nickname (Latin: Nonnatus, “not born”) refers to his birth by Caesarean section, his mother having died while giving birth to him.
I like him. He stays. He’s from Catalunya and I have stressing a lot the last fall over the chaos there. I prayed a lot about it. Still do whenever I see the problem in the news. I’m with Spain btw just to clarify why I worry. I think they are making a mistake to break away. Anyway it’s strange how it sort of fitted without me having to really look for connections with this saint.
 
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Anyway it’s strange how it sort of fitted without me having to really look for connections with this saint.
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This seems to be happening with everyone on this thread, it’s wonderful! Thank you @petra22 for sharing this idea!
 
Even odder about St. Raymond Nonnatus and me:
Raymond then set out to fulfill the goals of Order. He went to Valencia, where he ransomed 140 Christians from slavery. He then traveled to North Africa, where he was able to ransom another 250 captives in Algiers, and then went to Tunis, where he is said to have surrendered himself as a hostage for 28 captive Christians when his money ran out, in keeping with a special fourth vow taken by the members of the Order. He suffered in captivity as a legend states that the Moors bored a hole through his lips with a hot iron, and padlocked his mouth to prevent him from preaching. He was ransomed by his Order and returned to Spain in 1239.[2]
I also worried a lot the fate of Coptic Christians who are being persecuted and Christians in generally being killed these times. And he went and exchanged himself for persecuted Christians. As for the way he became a martyr with a padlock on his mouth, I used to have recurring nightmares in which I could not speak. I would open my mouth and I couldn’t move it to speak. Very odd.
🌸🌸:cherry_blossom:To the OP!
 
It’s amazing really… see how HE chose YOU?? Seems like it to me, anyway! 🙂
 
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