Saints Today
We have a cloud of witnesses
in the lives of the saints. They may interceed on our behalf as we call out to God to increase our faith and resolve to follow him. Their focus on the Eucharist during their lives is a help to us as we Reclaim Sunday to radiate the centrality
of Jesus' message: he has come to save and redeem sinners. While future study could advance in a deeper knowledge of the effects of conversion in the lives of the saints, we accept they were opened to God's grace.
Here are a few patron saints and their causes:
Bankers & Book Keepers-Matthew
Cancer Patients-Peregrine
Children: Nicholas
Death, sudden, protection against & Protection from Thunder storms : Thomas Aquinas
Fishermen-Peter
Heralds-John the Baptist
Housewives-Anne
Lost Articles and Barren Parents-Anthony of Padua
Media and
Enclosure-Clare
Messengers-Gabriel the Archangel
Missions-Therese
Mothers-Monica
Parishes-Leonard
of Port Maurice
Perseverance-Elizabeth
Physicians-Luke and Raphael the Archangel
Priests-John Vianney
Repairs-Francis
Singers-Cecilia
Soldiers-Joan of Arc
Theologians-Augustine
Writers-Francis
de Sales