Why Do We Venerate Saints

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What is a Saint? Who are Saints? How do they become Saints? These are the many questions ask by the other religious group or sect. Many christian sect do not recognize saints and do not believe to deserve such recognition.

Roman Catholics respect and venerate saints. They believe the sanctity of sainthood, the holiness of the person and being the nearer to God thus, they become the speaker or representative in all man's woes and cries for help from God.

Who Are Saints:

Saints are those ordinary people like us created by God. There was no preference of gender whether female, male, transgender, heterosexual, or LGBT. They differ from us when it comes to dedication and love to God. Their love is boundless and endless, endure and face whatever test of life encountered just to defend and stand their faith in God. No barrier and hurdles that can stop them in glorifying and praising God. Their faith is so strong that could not be threaten even in the darkness of death. For them to die defending their faith is a sweet victory in the face of God.

No ordinary man could surpass such faith that even those who are serving in the church,the priest who studied for about nine years and lay ministers could not parallel the faith and belief in their heart. To the extend of sacrificing oneself and leaving behind their love ones because for them serving God is their utmost goal and purpose in this world. Their happiness is enduring the hurt inflected by the enemies for not renouncing their faith. It is hold on their faith and loving God more than their life is the sweetest and the greatest achievement. A saint entering into heaven is a trophy that no ordinary believer could ever hold its sanctity.

How To Be A Saint:

To be a saint requires no credentials of any academic achievement, it does not need any certification or endorsement of any prominent individuals or high ranking officials to enter sainthood. Only God knows the qualification standard in entering the holy state. As base on past records which are documented about on saints life, saints themselves does not know that they will become saints. For only God choose who were to be saints and would not be saint.

There are many congregation praying to God and pass a manifesto to the higher order, appealing for certain individuals who are living in holiness and serving God to be canonized as saint. Those individuals undergo a long process of investigation and study, to scrutinized their history and works as a christian. Many until now were not approved or still under the process of passing into the hole of a needle. For sainthood is not simple order in the rows of people in heaven. They are the defender of the works of God, defender of our faith and mediator of our prayer to God.

Ordinarily saints suffer thoroughly before entering sainthood. They were test on their faith to the limits, that no ordinary man could survive. Others were tortured like animals as if they have no souls, killed slowly feeling every inch of pain and humiliated until man has no more face to show.

They live a life of holiness and purity, and their only vice is to serve, through preaching the word of God and let God known to the whole world.

Why Venerate Saints

We venerate saints because we believe that they were chosen by God to have a post in heaven through their good deeds in the world. They are holy individuals whom God would hear and listen. That is why in our prayer we invoke the saints for intercession. To pass to God our woes and plea, that by the intercession of the saints of our prayers were boosted thereby gaining great love and mercy from God. There are saints who are warriors and we ask for their help in times of troubles like war and infiltration of enemies, and there are saints that could cure our illness through their prayers, asking God for healing.

In this time of pandemic we are invoking the saints in our prayer to protect us and to help contain the virus, that we will be back to our normal life.

How about you do you venerate our saints?

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