Who is your favorite holy person not yet in Heaven?

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Pope Francis 🙂

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Bishop Robert Barron are high up there in sanctity as well, IMO.
 
It would be cool if there was a Padre Pio sort of chap living today, but far as I know, there is not. Padre Pio was a special one for a special time in God’s Providence. Still, we can always hope.
 
I have an answer.
But.it appears that it is difficult to spirituality discern some one .
as the answers have indicated so far.

Keep trying!!
 
dann said:
I have an answer.

But.it appears that it is difficult to spirituality discern some one .

as the answers have indicated so far.

Keep trying!!
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That is why I stuck with someone I knew. You are right. It is not possible to discern such things from afar.
 
Maybe I should have worded my question differently. What about, your favorite person involved in evangelizing and teaching the faith?

I reworded the question a bit.
 
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It is surely a different question. At one time many might have answered Fr. Corapi. Your re-word allows for a caveat that I think we all understand, so we don’t have to keep repeating it. I really like, and am inspired by, AB Sartain, as a humble and thoughtful servant. I am also very inspired by my own bishop, Cardinal DiNardo. I will never forget the last time I say him in person. His assistant was trying to keep him on schedule for the day. He just gently said they would work it out, but he wanted to meet the kids (after a school Mass), and he spent about fifteen minutes meeting and talking to the children. It was such an awesome Jesus parallel.

My wife is still number one though, especially as an evangelizer.
 
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Maybe I should have worded my question differently. What about, your favorite person involved in evangelizing and teaching the faith?
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That’s easier to answer, because there are people who do a great job evangelizing or teaching in some way, but one doesn’t know beans about their personal holiness, and for all I know they could have some scandal going on in their personal life that only comes out later, like Fr. Corapi.

When Mother Angelica was alive, I would have said her.

More recently I have a great respect for Fr. Heilman. I do not agree with him on everything (I think for example he makes way too big a deal out of communion in the mouth vs. in the hand) but he does a marvelous job of getting people to pray the Rosary and teaching them about getting indulgences for the dead. For those two things alone he deserves cookies, in my book.

I have respect for him currently because he is running a 54-day novena for Pope Francis, with no commentary on Francis being a good Pope or bad Pope or any criticisms, etc. although I strongly suspect that Fr. Heilman, as someone who leans more towards the traditional mindset, is not on the Pope Francis bandwagon. Yet he has encouraged many people to pray for the Pope, and without saying anything like “the Pope has everything so wrong, so he needs our prayers.” I could, if I wished, wonder about the sincerity of such an approach, since praying for the Pope is quite popular among some segments of Catholics, so perhaps this is for marketing purposes…but in either case the Pope is getting prayed for and the Pope can always use our prayers. I am making sure to also pray for Pope Emeritus Benedict, that he also be blessed, protected, guided, and helped with whatever he needs.
 
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That’s easier to answer, because there are people who do a great job evangelizing or teaching in some way, but one doesn’t know beans about their personal holiness, and for all I know they could have some scandal going on in their personal life that only comes out later, like Fr. Corapi.
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I don’t want to talk get started on him, however, I will say that I think he was likely doing a good job spiritually, for a fair stint of time. Then there was a point when things started to go downhill, but you may already surmise that.

Thanks for answering! I love Mother Angelica, too.
 
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I tend to think that people can often help others spiritually or in some other way, even when they themselves are having problems. Sometimes it is easier to help others than to do what you need to do to help yourself. Also, addiction is incredibly difficult as you never really recover, it’s always there waiting to get you. And that’s all I have to say about that.
 
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At one time many might have answered Fr. Corapi.
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His sermons brought me through an exceeding dark time in my life. I pray for him that he not be lost after saving so many…
 
I like Arthur Blessitt, the evangelist who began carrying the Cross around the world in 1969. He’s a very joyful man and a very humble man.
He told a moving story once about when he was walking across Africa. He was very very tired and, to his delight he saw a Christian Hospitality House. He went in and the lady there asked him which Church he represented. He told her that he was non-denominational but that he was bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to whoever he met. She said " We can’t take you in, as you have no affiliation or recommendation from any Christian Church. He left and he was prety upset. A while later a passing car pulled up and the couple in the car stopped to talk to him. They were atheists and they told him that as their house was currently empty he could go along and stop there. He went along and spent about three days resting up and preparing for the next phase of his journey. The reason I like AB is he has such a deep love for the Lord and such a powerful way of evangelising even when he’s just walking along carrying his cross. One wonders how many people across the globe have been touched by his witness.
 
Fr Corapi, our late priest, Fr Philip Breen (if he’s not already in Heaven, may he be there soon), our late Bishop David Choby (used to be the Associate Pastor at our parish), the late Frs Benedict Groeschel and Andrew Apostoli.
 
Thanks for sharing! And this just another great example of God’s infallible sense of humor.
 
Would anyone whose holiness may be compared to others find blessings from this last line of the “Litany of Humility”?

“That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should.”
 
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