08/11/2026
August 10th
Some words of wisdom from one of my pastor’s homilies rings just as true for our lives today as with everyone’s lives who have come before us.
🔸We should live out the faith each day with eternal life with God on our mind.
🔸Faith transforms our journey to heaven.
🔸We often don’t see the results that come from our acts of faith.
The lives of the saints are all different. How they were raised, what country they’re from, what time period they were born in, how poor or wealthy they were, whether they died from an illness as a child or were martyred for the faith as an adult, and the list goes on and on with regard to their difference. The saints are the ones who truly understand the supreme virtue of the kingdom of heaven. Several things they have in common; they joyfully give up tangible items, strive to live virtuously, persevere in obedience, and they are courageous through persecution.
🔸They had God as their central focus
🔸The transformation of their lives developed from their unshakeable faith
🔸While on Earth, they didn’t get to see the fruits of their acts of faith.
Today’s Saint is a martyr for the faith. He was a deacon in the church and was entrusted with protecting and dispersing the wealth and goods of the church to the poor, orphaned, and widowed. St. Lawrence lived during the 3rd century, a time when Christianity was outlawed and a time of great persecution to those who continued to live their faith in God. On August 10th he was “grilled” alive on a grid iron. According to tradition after he had been in pain for a long time he made his famous cheerful remark, “It is well done. Turn me over!” He is the patron saint of deacons, chefs, firefighters, comedians, librarians, and seminarians.
St. Lawrence…pray for us.