Achetez un café à Shannara Johnson

Opinionated Catholic convert writes about her meandering path to holiness. Some years ago, I foolishly asked God to make me a Saint. Well, He complied... by giving me all the necessary tools to develop the virtues of a Saint: humiliation for humility, material loss for poverty, a firm set of rules for obedience, deprivation for chastity. Little did I know that like gold, Saints are forged in the fire. Of all the great adventures of my life, this may be the greatest. Let's walk together and pull each other up the path to the narrow gate.

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