The Saints are your big brothers and sisters in the Lord and they love YOU! As they behold the Beatific Vision, they also see your sufferings, trials, tears, fears, and hidden crosses, and they care about YOU deeply, in union with the Holy Trinity. They are more fully alive and more fully loving than they were even here upon earth. They are with God, and to be with God means to love you as He loves you, and that is deeply, unconditionally, radically, affectionately, and lavishly. My aim in publishing this blog is to remind all of us that when the circumstances of our lives leave us feeling alone - abandoned - forsaken by family and friends, the Lord God has given us - you and me - the communion of Saints to cheer us on, to intercede for us, to encourage us by the example of their lives, and most of all to point us to Jesus. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!! YOU ARE PART OF GOD'S FAMILY!!!

I love Our Mama Mary!!! "Hold on tightly to the Rosary. Be very grateful to the Madonna because it was she who gave us Jesus." St Padre Pio

I am a 45 year old cradle Catholic who loves Jesus and His Church. My life has been (and continues to be) profoundly influenced by the spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux and her doctrine of "The Little Way". I was raised in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, to which I owe a great deal of gratitude, but have really been more of a "traditional" Catholic over the years who is now returning to the Charismatic Renewal. I am committed to true ecumenism. I have had CFIDS (chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome) and fibromyalgia for nearly 29 years. I remain hopeful for a cure and/or a miracle from God. The research community worldwide has been doing a phenomenal job! My life has also been profoundly influenced by the life, words, music, and ministry of the late Rich Mullins. My life's ministry is being a "Barnabas Lady" (a daughter of encouragement) and in general trying to be a cricket on the hearth.

I confess to Almighty God, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned through my own fault, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do; and I ask blessed Mary, ever virgin, all the angels and saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord, our God. I am 36, a student of life and a seminary college student. Passionately Catholic, Pro-Life (which are the same thing really), charismatic in both big and little C, in love with Jesus, the Blessed Mother, and St. Joseph, my family and friends. I love to share with my family and friends good wine, dark beer and Irish whiskey and to chase these magic beverages with great food and even greater company, conversation, and pithy discussion. I am a seminarian for the diocese of Savannah, GA. I aspire to be called Fidei Defensor and a good Confessor. These are my rants, my raves, the thoughts and tears of hearts, all through the crystal clear lense of my Catholic F

Prayers and devotions to St. Anthony of Padua.