Dear friend
I can list the Doctors of the church and say , yes their writings have inspired me, those are Mary the Mother of God, St Teresa of Avila, St Therese of Liseux, St Francis, St Padre Pio, St Benedict Labre, St John of the Cross, St Joan of Arc, St Bernadette, St Faustina and some others I can mention…BUT…
The Saints I know everyday, those who are in my parish and inspire my faith daily, from, my beautiful Parish Priest who is a Saint! Who reads hearts and knows more than he lets on, who is Christ-like, who has been Christ to me, who knows I know and I know he knows but we exist on a nod and a wink, to the old man of ninety odd years who sits at the back of church as a greeter and arrives very early before Mass daily and walks with much difficulty the stations of the cross in the darkness of the unlit church with a candle in his hands whom I have seen while praying before the Blessed Sacrament in the cold darkness and solitude of the locked church. The old ladies who faithfully pray daily before Mass the Rosary. The young man with great piety who inspired my own, who now has gone to seminary and please God will be a Priest. The little toddler children and babies with their innocent souls free of sin so pure and accepting of Jesus. Those suffering with cancer, those with awful afflictions, those with awful sorrows and hurts that limit their life and still smile in the peace of Christ. These and many others are my daily Saints that undeclared by the church I look at and know if I make it to heaven, I will see them there.
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa