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Here is a variation on the alphabet games: Starting with A name a saint whose name begins with that letter (and if you know other things about them you could include it) The next fur would do B and so on. Lets see how many we know??
St. Francis of Assisi. Feast Day October 4th. Patron saint of animals & the environment. Founded the Franciscan Order of priests.
Peace Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O DIVINE MASTER,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console,
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is giving that we receive;
It is pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
He was a graceful poet, a preacher at once eloquent & solid; & as a champion of the Faith so well equipped, so strenuous, & so exact, that
he is called St. Gregory the Theologian.
Reflection - "We must overcome our enemies," said St. Gregory, "by gentleness; win them over by forbearance. Let them be punished by their own conscience, not by our wrath. Let us not at once wither the fig-tree, from which a more skillful gardener may yet entice fruit."
St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr - Feast Day Feb. 1
He was devoured by lions in the Roman amphitheatre for being a Christian. After the martyr's death, several Christians saw him in vision standing before Christ, & interceding for them.
Reflection - Ask St. Ignatius to obtain for you the grace of profiting by all you have to suffer & rejoicing in it as a means of likeness to your cruicified Redeemer.
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