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A saint for our time, now in the making

A saint for our time, now in the making

Vicky Cosstick - The Tablet - Articles el Tue, Dec 6th 2016

Dorothy Day was ambivalent herself. “I don’t want to be a saint,” she famously said, “I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” She would also say: “I wish they might wait until I am dead.” Day never wanted the focus to be on her, as Pat and Kathleen Jordan, who helped to care for in her last years, confirm. She always wanted it to be on the Gospel.

Commentary to the 31 Sunday in Ordinary Time - All Saints Day

Commentary to the 31 Sunday in Ordinary Time - All Saints Day

Fr. Joseph Pellegrino, SJ - Homilies el Sat, Oct 31st 2015

 “This saint is my hero”, we could say. The operative word to define a Greek hero would be courage. Did they have the courage to complete their mission in life? There are also heros in the first part of the Bible, the Old Testament. Abraham and Samson and David and Deborah and Ruth were all heros because against seemingly impossible odds, they still allowed God's plan to work through them.