Which Saint Would You Be?

Saint Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure is praying for you! To learn more
about this eloquent saint go to the Patron
Saint Index at http://www.catholic-forum.com


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Find out more about St. Bonaventure
here and here. A Seraphic Doctor of the Church (because he revealed a certain warmth toward others as a divine fire), a friend of St. Thomas Aquinas, a restorer of perfect calm and peace within his order, filled with the virtue of charity, possessing a strong devotion to Our Blessed Virgin Mary (He describes Mary as the Mirror of God through which we see Jesus.), and a love for the Eucharist -- not too shabby. I'll assume his identity -- better yet, he is someone I can emulate and ask his intercession for assistance in my own feeble attempts to be holy and to abandon my will to the will of God.

Prayer of St. Bonaventure

Pierce, O most sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, and with true, calm and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with entire love and longing for Thee, may yearn for Thee and for thy courts, may long to be dissolved and to be with Thee. Grant that my soul may hunger after Thee, the Bread of Angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and super substantial bread, having all sweetness and savor and every delightful taste. May my heart ever hunger after and feed upon Thee, Whom the angels desire to look upon, and may my inmost soul be filled with the sweetness of Thy savor; may it ever thirst for Thee, the fountain of life, the fountain of wisdom and knowledge, the fountain of eternal light, the torrent of pleasure, the fullness of the house of God; may it ever compass Thee, seek Thee, find Thee, run to Thee, come up to Thee, meditate on Thee, speak of Thee, and do all for the praise and glory of Thy name, with humility and discretion, with love and delight, with ease and affection, with perseverance to the end; and be Thou alone ever my hope, my entire confidence, my riches, my delight, my pleasure, my joy, my rest and tranquility, my peace, my sweetness, my food, my refreshment, my refuge, my help, my wisdom, my portion, my possession, my treasure; in Whom may my mind and my heart be ever fixed and firm and rooted immovably. Amen.

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