Got saints? Here are some great podcasts on the saints.

Happy All Saints Day!

We love the saints around here. If you're looking for some of our previous shows on saints, check out these:

AW 113 with Lisa Hendey, talking about her new book A Book of Saints for Catholic Mom

AW 51 with Ronda Chervin, discussing her Treasury of Women Saints. 

AW 17 with Gina Loehr, conversing about Real Women, Real Saints. 

 Of course, Among Women has an entire master index/archive listed by the saints we have covered.

And don't forget the Saint Cast with Paul Cammarata - an archive of over 140 podcasts!

Among Women #89- The Icing on the Cake

Among Women 90 takes a light-hearted look at doing the craft thing in time with the liturgical year--even if you are craft-impaired like I am! We welcome Lacey Rabideau, blogger at Catholic Icing, for a fun show that's all about kid-friendly and mom-friendly crafting, plus easy recipes that round out our Catholic experience.

This week's show also profiles the life of St. Louise de Marillac, wife, mother, widow, and foundress of the Daughters of Charity, alongside St. Vincent de Paul.

Don't forget SQPN's Giving Campaign Marathon, this Sunday, March 6th.
And Faith and Family's "Mom's Day Away" coming up April 2, in Stoneham, MA.

This makes me think: For All the Saints, Let Your Life Song Sing...

Catholics understand the saints to be full participants in the mediatorship of Jesus. Their participation no more subtracts from his ministry than the glory that shines upon them subtracts from his glory. It is all his, forsooth.  there is one fountainhead from which we all have drunk and from which we bear refreshment to parched souls...

To ask one of the saints for his prayers is of one seamless piece with our asking each other to pray for us.  The precincts of the Divine mercy cannot be parceled out with addition and subtraction, with my siphoning off this bit of Jesus' priesthood when I venture to pray for you, and you pocketing that much of his merit when you lay your life down for me with such generosity day after day (one is thinking of one's spouse here).  There is only gushing superabundance here, immersing us all, filling us all, and sweeping us along in the tide of that amplitude overflowing from the Father himself.

---Thomas Howard, On Being Catholic, (Ignatius Press, 1997).

And then, there are times when we are reminded that there are even saints among us...