St. Malachy (1094 - 1148) - wow I have a calendar that seems to have names of some very obscure saints. The other name for today is St. Macrina the elder (d. 340). I have a two volume set of books of names of saints that does not list either saint on this calendar. It does have a short quip for St. Macrina the younger who lived fro 330 - 379.
Gameshow - Who Wants to be a Saint. A wise old friend of mine years ago said it would be interesting if we had something that measured the amount of suffering a person had actually gone through. It would be a way of verifying how authenticate one's life story was.
I know the answer to this now. You may know the measure of one's suffering by the capacity one has to love, unless one's suffering leads one into despair.
Someone else had said that no situation (I plug in no one's life) is ever totally hopeless. There is always hope. I've held onto this (sometimes for dear life) and it has played out to be true in my life. I pray that it does so in others, like mine, especially those who need it most.
But back to the question - who wants to be a saint? Really.
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