A collection of suggested activities are provided in this book for various saints on their feast days.

Catholic heroes from the past 2,000 years.

God's saints come in a wide variety of personalities, with purity and dubious intent liberally mixed into all of them. They have many levels of faith or doubt, along with obvious or deceptively disguised sanctity. All saints are flawed people; there is none totally righteous, no, not one, as the apostle Paul insisted. Nonetheless, all daughters and sons of God are saints. And because everyone is a child of God, we are all saints, even if we reject our God-given saintly status. The author has known many hundreds of church members very well through more than fifty years of parish ministry, plus several thousands of others not so well. The Communion of Saints: A Pastor's Potpourri of Parishioners is a collection of short biographical sketches of many admired church people as seen through the eyes of a long-of-tooth parson.

Jesus told us to be perfect, and the Second Vatican Council highlighted this command by speaking of the universal call to holiness for all Christians. How do we answer this call? One great way is to learn from and pray with the saints, the ordinary men and women who fought the good fight to be holy until the end of their lives – and won. The saints have inspired Christians for more than two thousand years because they show us what it looks like to follow Jesus Christ despite countless challenges and obstacles. This unique book contains short biographies of several saints, along with prayers to each one, for every day of the year. It also provides definitions of Church terms and other helpful back - ground information. The saints in this collection come from every period of Church history and all walks of life. They represent numerous countries, cultures, age groups, and vocations. They show us that holiness truly is a path open to anyone, and by their example and prayers they help us to follow it.

Each of the 185 card contains a saint's life story, dates of birth and death, year of canonization, charge as a patron, a picture and feast day. You will also find suggestions for student activities related to the saint.

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