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Saints:
Date: 11/15/2009
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Catholic Audio 
You can't be formally declared a Saint in this life, but you can get pretty darn close! Above: Pope Benedict XVI.
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Saint:
Date: 11/12/2009
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lacrossecath 
Actually that is not a Chicago Bear that St. John is stepping on victoriouly, but an Ottoman Turk. Continue Reading »
Images for Prayer
Submitted by Jeff Geerling on Sun, 11/01/2009 - 3:22am
As we celebrate all the Saints today, we know we have a great gift in the Church of beautiful images which not only remind us of the great men and women that went before us in faith, but also lead us to prayer. Earlier this year, Zenit ran a wonderful article outlining the ability for sacred icons to lead people to prayer:
ROME, MARCH 5, 2009 (Zenit.org) — To learn the art of icons is to learn the art of prayer that leads to communion with God, according to an iconographer and teacher who just finished imparting a specialized course in Rome.
Fabio Nones, doctor in theology and director of a center of iconography in Trent, Italy, concluded last Saturday an advanced course for a select group of artists in an ecumenical center near the Vatican.
Nones explained to ZENIT that there is a great difference between an artist, in the ordinary sense of the word, and a painter of icons. Continue Reading »
