We need to see more lay saints

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I’ve just noticed that many priests are being lobbied and placed, if not already), on the road to sainthood. I would like to see more lay persons being discovered as a saint. We do have faithful living as saints don’t we? I don’t know of any at hand but I know they are out there.
 
One of my good friends in Heaven is Blessed Chiara Badano.

She was rewarded Heaven at the young age of just 18. Hers is a beautiful story of courage, love, and the cross.

One of my favorite new friends is: Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock, she entered the Heavenly Kingdom at the very young age of 12, I think.

They are both fairly contemporary saints, too.

patheos.com/blogs/feastofeden/2013/06/blessed-albertina-berkenbrock-and-what-it-means-to-be-a-martyr-of-chastity/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara_Badano
 
actually, the “latest fashion” is canonising laity. There are 1000s of them.
 
WilT said:
I’ve just noticed that many priests are being lobbied and placed, if not already), on the road to sainthood. I would like to see more lay persons being discovered as a saint. We do have faithful living as saints don’t we? I don’t know of any at hand but I know they are out there.
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We need to learn more about the lay Saints we already have while praying for others. I personally know at least 2 lay persons that I would consider Saints but they will probably never be Canonized. One mother of 9 children found to be with cancer in her 5th month of baby 9 and refused all treatment till after baby was born. She died a year later from her cancer. Her fervent prayer, “Your Will LORD, not mine!” All the time she never stopped praying for an end to abortion. I know of another mother dying of Cancer that refused all pain medication and she offered her sufferings up for the conversion of every member of her family.(10 kids). Two of her nurses, a DR. and a priest all told me this at different times. The priest at her funeral said she is TRULY a SAINT. God Bless, Memaw
 
I think it’s important to note that priests and other religious are simply more prominent and visible to the Church I think, and therefore are more likely to be singled out in this way. That’s not to say that there aren’t lay people who live the life of a saint and reap what it sows. The Calendar isn’t comprehensive!
 
Pax Christi!

Those in the religious life usually have lived better-documented lives.

Bl. Jacinta and Bl. Francesca are lay examples, as are the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem.

God bless!
 
You are right, it is not so common to hear about married saints or other lay persons. Perhaps we are all called to champion some of the lesser known ones as cited above or in the book Married Saints and Blesseds. I have the book and it gives a several page life bio of each one. :o
 
Pax Christi!

Those in the religious life usually have lived better-documented lives.

Bl. Jacinta and Bl. Francesca are lay examples, as are the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem.

God bless!
 
Memaw said:
We need to learn more about the lay Saints we already have while praying for others. I personally know at least 2 lay persons that I would consider Saints but they will probably never be Canonized. One mother of 9 children found to be with cancer in her 5th month of baby 9 and refused all treatment till after baby was born. She died a year later from her cancer. Her fervent prayer, “Your Will LORD, not mine!” All the time she never stopped praying for an end to abortion. I know of another mother dying of Cancer that refused all pain medication and she offered her sufferings up for the conversion of every member of her family.(10 kids). Two of her nurses, a DR. and a priest all told me this at different times. The priest at her funeral said she is TRULY a SAINT. God Bless, Memaw
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Thank you for sharing. My fav. prayer…Your Will be done Lord not mine…🙂
 
The canonization process is very expensive. You need a lot of money.
 
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The canonization process is very expensive. You need a lot of money.
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Lot’s of money, yeah I just read about how the process can be expensive. A poor person may never make it as a Saint if that is one of the requisites:(. It took the poor peasant Juan Diego :angel1:over 500 years to be canonized yet with without his help Catholicism may have never arrived to the Americans and we would have been either Protestant or Muslim instead.
 
Yes, Jack, for just $19.95 plus shipping and handling you too can become a saint! So start saving up your spare change. 😛
 
In my opinion, it might be nice to have (even) more canonized non-martyred lay saints. Perhaps if every Catholic diocese and eparchy in the world suggested that every parish (or deanery, if that is too ambitious) attempt to find every five years among the parishioners who had died in the past decade or so at least one who might be suitable for the process of beatification. Then authorities from the diocese or eparchy could look into the cases of the deceased parishioners and see whether at least one could become a cause that might be successfully sent on to the Vatican.

Of course, most of the causes that would be sent on to the Vatican would probably rise no further than Venerable, but the lives of ordinary yet exemplary Catholics from throughout the world and from almost all walks of life would nevertheless become known to the wider Church. Perhaps every Catholic parish in the world has a potential canonized saint in its midst.
 
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