Learning to be Quick to Listen

This World Mission Sunday , Pope Francis will canonize 14 new saints in St. Peter’s Square, and he wants people to get familiar with them. World Mission Sunday is a popular day for the pope to declare new saints and honor men and women who spent their lives in mission territories. In anticipation of the event, the Pope has invited all Catholic church members to "learn about these new saints and ask for their intercession."  All 14 people had unique vocations and life stories as witnesses to holiness. Among the 14, two were married fathers, three were founders of generational religious orders, eight Franciscan friars and three marionettes who were martyred in Syria in 1860. “They are a clear testimony of the Holy Spirit’s action in the life of the Church,” the pope said. Pope Francis expressed his desire for the congregation to appreciate the heroics of the soon-to-be saints.  The biographies of the Blessed break down their spiritual legacies worldwide. One of the Fathers, Giu...