THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

I find this article an amusingly petrified corpus as its author begins with: ‘A saint is a dead person….” https://catholicvote.org/how-to-become-a-saint/

The following instructions for beatific mummification would cause a modern day mortician to gasp. For those who must know all the wry, gruesome details and definitions for a Catholic canonization, have at it:

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/csaints/documents/rc_con_csaints_doc_07021983_norme_en.html

In The Acts of the Apostles, St Paul refers to saints as those living human beings who practice holiness and thereby enjoy the presence and peace of the Living God (Romans 1:7, Ephesians 1:1)). It is of little wonder that Protestant denominations contest all the stultifying restrictions by the Catholic Church regarding genuine sainthood.

Anyone who has read the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister, can appreciate why it gets complicated. He was tried and hung, a true Christian martyr despite his reluctant involvement in a group plot to assassinate Hitler. Had God forgiven him like the good thief hung beside Jesus? If so, why is he not listed a genuine saint by the Catholic Church?

https://www.bookey.app/quote-author/dietrich-bonhoeffer#:~:text=Dietrich%20Bonhoeffer’s%20quote%2C%20%22Cheap%20grace,often%20prevalent%20in%20our%20lives.

Catholic protocols for sainthood are not unlike a conchologist praising a Mercari conch some five years after it is dead, classified as such upon counting the appropriate number of rings, colors, and dimensions, etc.

I wonder how such tedious experts would react to ‘shocking’ news of a sensational live specimen from a deep sea diver (or contemplative) who insists living sea shells (or breathing, warm-blooded saints) truly do exist.

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