Monday, October 01, 2007

Catholic Saints for Children


In my opinion, saints are like angels. They look after us, protect us and guide us to safety during our day to day personal activities. Saints, I believe, act as guardian angels.

Still, saints are so much more. They are effective intercessors to the Lord God. They are like our messengers, helping us by delivering our requests and prayers to the Lord.

And parents and Catholic, we can try educating our kids into the lives of the Patron Saints. We can tell about the stories of how they came to be.

We all know how all of them suffered because of the Catholic Faith, and remained brave and strong during times of trials and dangers brought about by their standing by their faith.

To our kids, we can present them as Christian heroes; they are personalities that serve best as model Catholic to our children.

There are many that serve as Patron Saints of Children. Some are Saint Nicholas and the Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague. Saint Thomas More is for the adopted children.

For boy scouts, we have St. George and for families, the Patron Saint is St. Joseph.

Let us tell our children about the life stories of saints, and hopefully our young ones may value their journey to sainthood and even learn from it.

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