News Item: : Some Good News About the Synod - At Last!
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Wednesday 04 March 2015 - 12:53:55

Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has announced that the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux - Blessed Louis and Blessed Zelie Martin - will be canonized this October, during the Synod in Rome.

This is splendid news - Let us thank Heaven for it!

As a married couple, the Martins lovingly lived out their Catholic Faith in the heart of their family, home, workplace and parish. Like little St. Therese, they teach us that holiness can be reached by co-operating with grace in even the smallest details of everyday family life. They are examples of good parenting, sound governance and authentic education. This exemplary married couple provide a timely model of charity, chastity and that grace-filled family unity which holds the balance of play, prayer and work in harmony. With the model of the Holy Family at the centre of their home, the Martins were enabled to find Christ at the heart of all their works, prayers, joys and sufferings. 

The Martins had nine children; four of these died in infancy and the five daughters, who survived into adulthood, all became religious sisters. The most famous of these was, of course, St. Therese of Lisieux.

In the coming months, let us pray to this exemplary Catholic married couple for the Synod on Marriage to affirm, defend and clearly articulate the constant teaching of the Magisterium, on the Sacrament of Marriage, for the people of our time.

May the Synod be transformed into a shining beacon of authentic Catholic teaching for the glory of God, the good of the Church, the salvation and sanctification of souls, and the well-being of society.

St. Therese, Blessed Louis and Blessed Zelie Martin - Pray for us!      

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