Minute Meditations

Unsung Saints

person reaching out a hand to help pull a man up.

We can all think of people who have made a significant difference in the major decisions and directions of our lives. It may or may not have seemed dramatic at the time, but looking back we can see that words of encouragement or admonition changed the path we were on and set us toward a new life.

Pope Francis suggests that these people, too, are part of our personal communion of saints: “Certainly the most decisive turning points in world history are substantially codetermined by souls whom no history book ever mentions. And we will only find out about those souls to whom we owe the decisive turning points in our personal lives on the day when all that is hidden is revealed.”

—from St. Anthony Messenger‘s “Saints Next Door
by Diane M. Houdek


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2 thoughts on “Unsung Saints”

    1. Sir,
      All the questions here were solved by me long ago by love-God idea.
      When I increase my love by love-works that love integrates me more and more to that degree of love-increment. When sufficiently integrated my soul can automatically conquer sin and suffering even death by that
      integrity strength. No need of interference by any outward agent. But outer agents would interfere anyway but I’ve to accept or reject them selectively according to my knowledge and their respective motive.

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