Fascinating! The timing of this is so important in bringing more light to the miraculous presence of our Lord in His servants on earth. (At least some 😇) Praise be to God!
Very strange how some people get passed on for sainthood despite nothing special about them, but a humble bride of Christ is ignored. Synodal church is struggling.
How about Aquitis? He made one website. People love him because of his looks, theres nothing much known about him, his mother keeps pushing for his sainthood and what do we get art and statues with a boy in joggers and a laptop.
Compared to that here we have a nun who spent her entire life in Prayer and sacrifice. She would have more superiors and religious to testify about her life and holiness. Also, the former needed formaldehyde to help his decomposing body, but this nun was buried without anything special. Given the boy might be a Saint, but a poor nun like this is a better example to hold up to Catholics for holiness. I wish they wouldn't be so eager about millennials as saints, we need authentic heroic virtue. Today strange young ladies especially are being declared blessed. People who were murdered or died in an accident, with no special love for the Catholic faith. These people lower the bar for young people. We have saints, only they get ignored while others get promoted as saints. Not much miracles either with the newly declared saints.
You mean Carlos Acutis? I think people love him because of his devotion to the Holy Eucharist and his heroic saintly example bearing illness and gracefully dying at a young age. Not to mention, he put together a database of Eucharistic miracles; that's no small feat. There's no reason to underplay his sanctity because you don't like the art made in his honor.
The process of canonization is begun at the local level. If there is no cause for this holy woman's canonization it's because nobody has started it, it's not because of any decision at the Vatican.
The premise is, partly, that corruption is a result of the fall and an effect of sin, so a holy person might be immune to it, allowed as a sign of hope in the resurrection of the body.
Incorruptibility isn’t an answer to anything, certainly not to a prayer. The phenomena happens. At times it defies rational explanation, so we look to faith to provide an explanation, but that’s just guesswork. Although it is often suggested as a sign of sanctity, the church doesn’t use it when making the case for canonization. It may be intended to point us to the promise of the resurrection, or it may be something we just don’t understand yet. As for life and death, prayers answered and unanswered—that’s another subject entirely. All we know is that we all shall die, and if we die in Christ we will also live in him.
wonderful, thank you❤️
Fascinating! The timing of this is so important in bringing more light to the miraculous presence of our Lord in His servants on earth. (At least some 😇) Praise be to God!
Hi Thomas,
I'm so glad I found your two blogs/substacks!
Robert "Tito" Edwards
https://bigpulpit.com/
Hey Tito! Good to see you!
Very strange how some people get passed on for sainthood despite nothing special about them, but a humble bride of Christ is ignored. Synodal church is struggling.
Traditionally you would wait 50 years before initiating a cause for canonization if I remember correctly. Perhaps that is what the Bishop means.
How about Aquitis? He made one website. People love him because of his looks, theres nothing much known about him, his mother keeps pushing for his sainthood and what do we get art and statues with a boy in joggers and a laptop.
Compared to that here we have a nun who spent her entire life in Prayer and sacrifice. She would have more superiors and religious to testify about her life and holiness. Also, the former needed formaldehyde to help his decomposing body, but this nun was buried without anything special. Given the boy might be a Saint, but a poor nun like this is a better example to hold up to Catholics for holiness. I wish they wouldn't be so eager about millennials as saints, we need authentic heroic virtue. Today strange young ladies especially are being declared blessed. People who were murdered or died in an accident, with no special love for the Catholic faith. These people lower the bar for young people. We have saints, only they get ignored while others get promoted as saints. Not much miracles either with the newly declared saints.
You mean Carlos Acutis? I think people love him because of his devotion to the Holy Eucharist and his heroic saintly example bearing illness and gracefully dying at a young age. Not to mention, he put together a database of Eucharistic miracles; that's no small feat. There's no reason to underplay his sanctity because you don't like the art made in his honor.
The process of canonization is begun at the local level. If there is no cause for this holy woman's canonization it's because nobody has started it, it's not because of any decision at the Vatican.
The premise is, partly, that corruption is a result of the fall and an effect of sin, so a holy person might be immune to it, allowed as a sign of hope in the resurrection of the body.
Incorruptibility isn’t an answer to anything, certainly not to a prayer. The phenomena happens. At times it defies rational explanation, so we look to faith to provide an explanation, but that’s just guesswork. Although it is often suggested as a sign of sanctity, the church doesn’t use it when making the case for canonization. It may be intended to point us to the promise of the resurrection, or it may be something we just don’t understand yet. As for life and death, prayers answered and unanswered—that’s another subject entirely. All we know is that we all shall die, and if we die in Christ we will also live in him.