Favourite saint.

[celestial_ANGEL]

Hi, I don't know if this has been posted before......But I'm curious: Who is your favourite saint and why? (I'm trying to find out which saint will guide me closer to God)

 

[Borealis]

Mine would probably be St. Thomas Aquinas. One of the world's greatest minds, devoting his all-too-brief life to the greatest possible human understanding of God. And to think...he wasn't even finished the Summa Theologica when he had his vision of Heaven and quit writing. There was still more to write...

 

[bytor4232]

It would have to be a toss up. Although I love the Archangel Gabriel and Francis of Assissi, I have to go with the patron saint of my career, Saint Isidore of Seville. He was very intelligent and helped spread knowledge to an ignorant people. He was truly a great man.

 

[Illuminite]

im praying to saint bernadette to help me join the catholic church,and understand the doctrine. i also am reading about st augustine.

 

[furkidsmom]

St Jude! He has always come through for me! I find tremendous comfort in praying my St Jude Novena prayers.

 

[LongingForLight]

I pray to St. Jude for my fiance's conversion, because my fiance used to wear a St. Jude pendant "because it was cool". I really don't have a favourite saint exactly, but I do have a great fondness for St. Jude. I also like St. Francis of Assisi and St. Patrick. St. Francis, because I think his teachings on living a simple life and his famous saying, "Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words," are extremely applicable in this age of materialism and preaching hellfire-and-damnation indiscriminately and even hypocritically.

 

[Rosa Mystica]

St. Joan of Arc is my favourite. Why? Simply b/c she was an incredibly courageous woman till the end.

 

[HolyGuardianAngels]

Hi, I don't know if this has been posted before......But I'm curious: Who is your favourite saint and why? (I'm trying to find out which saint will guide me closer to God)

Hi...

My Guardian Angel comes through for me!
I just love and appreciate him!

I also have a special devotion to Our Blessed Lady...

And I also make novenas to The Little Flower, St. Jude, St. Joseph, St. Faustina, and St. Anna;for things, which come to pass.

Good question.
God Bless

 

[PetertheRock]

Mine is St. Peter. I think because Peter reminds me so much of myself. He was quick to anger, he doubted Jesus, he denied Jesus 3 times, he couldn't stay awake when Jesus was praying in the garden, he even was a bit sarcastic with Jesus at the washing of the feet thing (You will never wash my feet....then wash my head and my hands too) with all his faults Jesus made Peter the rock, the foundation of the Church. If Jesus chose someone like Peter to be the rock I figure there has to be hope for me

I even took the name of Peter way back when I made my Confirmation.

Darryl

 

[prayfordivinemercy]

That is hard to pick one.
St. Faustina, entrusted to teach the world of Divine Mercy.
St. Jude, for his intercession of an answered prayer, the healing (against ALL odds) of one of daughters.
I love them all. We can learn so much from them.

 

[D'Ann]

St. Jude and St. Francis of Assisi.

 

[Robbie_James_Francis]

Ask me again in five years and I'll tell you Pope Saint John Paul the Great.

Until then my favourite Saint is almost certainly Saint Francis. He lived such a simple, uncompromising life of devotion to the Gospel and to God. When we hear so much about the bickering and worldliness of Medieval Europe, he was a man who, like millions of others, especially other religious sisters and brothers, lived a good, holy life focused not on this world, but on God's Kingdom.

His ability to trust God and be complete in happiness without the comfort and security most of us know, I am amazed and overjoyed because he offers a beacon of hope that mankind truly is able to rid itself of evil and follow the Gospel.

We need not pretend that something is reconcilable with the Gospel because it is simply impossible to do, because he never did. Rather he was a slave of the Gospel, living in utter poverty, insecurity and simplicity, his only hope in God.

Pax vobiscum.
Joannes Paulus, ora pro nobis.

Robbie

 

[New_Found_Faith]

Mine is St. Aloysius Gonzaga and St. Robert Bellarmine are my favorites. I chose my saint name after St. Robert [because I liked the name] and St. Gonzaga because he is the Patron Saint of young people and struggled with sins that I have yet to overcome. St. Gonzaga was apprentice to St. Robert Bellarmine as well.
Sean C.

 

[lonnienord]

excellent choices Sean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my favorite saint is St. Joseph!!

 

[Gwendolyn]

St. Michael the Archangel... his intercession combined with that of the Blessed Mother recently helped me through a very difficult night...

Also St. Benedict, and St. Catherine of Siena, simply because her life and spirituality are a constant inspiration to me.

 

[Dream]

The Blessed Mother who was pure in heart and humbly accepted God's plan. Also, St. Michael the Archangel for triumphing over Satan by the grace of God.

Other than Christ, I find those two to be the perfect example to follow. Obeidently follow God with a humble life, but always be agressive in fighting off Satan.

 

[Irenaeus]

St. Augustine of Hippo.

 

[LADY DI]

Two of my Favorite saints are St. Francis of Assisi and St. Patrick.

 

[Jasma]

St. Anthony, St. Joseph, St. Francis. Our first son will have a combination of those names.

 

[furkidsmom]

St. Anthony, St. Joseph, St. Francis. Our first son will have a combination of those names.