Learning from the Saints - part 2

St John Bosco, the founder of the Salesian Order

We can pray like the saints and learn from them, as these did over the years, by doing simple things......

. . . Play with your children . . . like St John Bosco, who spent hours playing and running with children whom he also taught about Jesus . . .

. . . Keep a Diary or Journal . . .like the Four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, who wrote the Gospels, and like St Therese of the Child Jesus, who wrote the “Story of a Soul”. . .

. . . Enjoy Music . . . like St Cecilia, the Patron Saint of Music. . .

. . . Show Care and Concern about others . . . like St Vincent de Paul, St Martin de Porres, St. Charles Borromeo and St Philip Neri, all of whom gave their life, their time and their energy for their people . . .

. . . Being Patient with your children . . . like St Monica, who suffered mentally and spiritually until her son, St Augustine turned his life around . . .

. . . Getting along with your siblings . . . like St Scholastica and her twin brother St. Benedict, who both became religious, and remained best friends until they died . . .

. . . Being disattached from worldly goods . . . like St Matthew, who left his job as tax-collector and became an Apostle of Jesus . . .

. . . Show leadership, in spite of opposition . . . like St Joan of Arc, who rescued her country, and died as a martyr in the process . . .
. . . Turn your shortcomings into blessings. . . like St Hugh, who was very shy and bashful, yet his modesty and humility won him many friends . . .
. . . Act as a Peace-Maker. . . like St Casimir, who refused to fight for his country, but brought Peace between Hungary and Poland . . .

. . . and Pray, Love, Suffer, Preach, Heal . . .as Jesus did 2000 years ago, and as his Apostles and their successors did ever since . . .