I love the saints – hang out here at all, and you’ll inevitably see evidence. This is why I’m always a little giddy when the Church adds a few more watts to her spiritual sky and makes our earthly pilgrimage just a bit brighter.
They light the way, they set the course – they say, come and follow us – we’ve followed Christ through a thousand paths and we’ll help you find yours.
Today in Rome we gained several more links in this living rosary, one of whom wrote something once which I’ve clung to and which has given me a little more (kindly!) light for any current step I may be standing on.
I hope it blesses you, too.
“God has commanded me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission–I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next…I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.
Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain; He may prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends, He may throw me among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me–still He knows what He is about.”
-Saint John Henry Newman, Meditations and Devotions