Melanie Rigney uses stories of the saints, our sisters in faith, to help readers grow in their spiritual lives. Some of these saints are familiar—Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena, Bernadette of Lourdes, Elizabeth Ann Seton—while others are not so well known—Maria Karlowska, Claudine Thevenet, Josephine Bakhita, Elizabeth of Portugal. They come from different places and different times, creating an intimate portrait of the universal Church. Yet the lives of each of these women illustrate the qualities of the Beatitudes—what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls “the heart of Jesus’s preaching” (1716)—in a down-to-earth and human way. Through the lives of these exemplary women saints and the qualities they espouse—meekness, mourning, poverty of spirit, justice, mercy, purity of heart, peace, righteousness—women will find ways to live more fully the Gospel values of Christian life.
Love the saints and the lessons we learn from them This is the sequel to the Sisterhood of Saints: Daily Guidance and Inspiration. If you love saint stories like I do you will love this book. But do you know whats even better is that these stories are aligned with the eight beatitudes. There is an introduction related to each beatitude, then stories of four saints who embody these virtues. Then there are bonus short stories if you want to know more. There is a good mix of saints that are well known like Maria Faustina Kowalska, Elizabeth Ann…
Saints + Beatitudes = Inspiration in Faith Author Melanie Rigney connects lives of the saints as well as some contemporary holy women on the road to sainthood with the Beatitudes. This book is more than a biography or collection of lives of the saints: there’s lots of practical advice for application of heroic virtue in our own lives. Highly recommended.
Blessed Are You: Sisters of Spiritual Poverty Melanie Rigney reminds us that Jesus was poor and has a heart for the poor, like our own Pope Francis. Like the first followers of Christ who listened to him teach the Beautitudes, we attempt to see Christ in the least of our brothers and sisters. They are all around us in the poor, homeless, prisoners and victims of discrimination who may thank us or spit on us.