Lent Day 32

This is 2 days late, but I just got around to reading my Lenten reflection from day 32.

Fr. Robert Barron's website, WordonFire.org, is an excellent source of Catholic materials. I signed up for his Lenten emails a couple weeks before Lent even started. If you can, try and find his Catholicism series. It's amazing!

The title of day 32's reflection is "Befriend a Saint."

The saints is one of the topics I had a hard time wrapping my mind around when I first started my RCIA journey.

This is what the email said:
"In the Catholic tradition, the saints are not simply models or people to be admired. They are, above all, friends. When we have a devotion to a particular saint, we've found a soul companion, a spiritual guide.

In these last couple weeks of Lent, find a saint who is like you in personality, who struggled with some of the same things you struggle with, or who loved the same things you love. Find a heavenly soul-mate and make him or her part of your prayer life - read about them and pray with them. You might not connect with every saint, but chances are you'll find one whose style is agreeable to you.

Also, and here's the more challenging suggestion, choose another saint who bothers you, one whom you don't really appreciate or who maybe rubs you the wrong way. It might be just this saint who helps fill you out, to realize in you that aspect of the holy you especially need.

The ordinary goal of the Christian life is to be a saint. God has painted all of these masterpieces, clear and messy, attractive and strange, in order to help us toward that goal."

It also included a link to a Saint Name Generator.

Of course I clicked on it.

And I was kind of blown away. Definitely a God moment.

St. Anthony of Padua came up.

His feast day is June 13, and he is the patron saint of infertility and pregnant women among other things.

This is a God moment because my pregnant cousin and sister-in-law have been on my heart, as well as a couple friends who are struggling with infertility.

Read more about St. Anthony of Padua here.

The Saint Name Generator can be found here.

I hope you find someone that can be your friend in prayer, and touched in a way you didn't think possible.