Todd Sylvester: Saints for today

I have been reading a book of the Saints of John Paul II and loving it! Many of them are from the 20th century. Each life story inspires and invites me to holiness, but I am especially invigorated by the Saints who were married with children. For years I thought you could ONLY be a Saint if you were a priest or religious, so to read about canonized people who had to change diapers, and pay power bills and change the oil in their cars (Yes- it’s true!) makes me feel that Sainthood IS attainable!
    
God calls us ALL to Sainthood, and the stories of the next Saints will be of people who drove pick-up trucks and watched football games, and worked in offices and loved their spouses and folded laundry and got the mail and went out to lunch and worked diligently to Proclaim the Kingdom of God to all the world with their HOLY LIVES.
    
Those stories will be told and they will inspire the next generation and Grace will flow like a river because of those people…my question is; “Will your name be in the next book of Saints?” Romans 6:22

About Todd Sylvester Todd Sylvester has worked in Church Ministry for almost 20 years. His love for Christ in the Eucharist is evident as he strives to lead his wife and ten children to the heavenly banquet. Todd is a writer, singer/songwriter, radio show host, teacher, and above all else, Lover of God. His child-like perspective is not only poignant, but helps reveal the reality of God in our everyday living.