Thomas Griffin 11/1/24 (For National Catholic Register)
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All Saints’ Day is a yearly opportunity to be powerfully moved by the reality of holiness and the true impact that a relationship with Jesus Christ had on countless numbers of Christians. The variety of personalities and individual characteristics is endless: There are saints who had deeply sinful pasts, saints who died as teenagers, and saints who shed their blood rather than renounce their faith — and so many more holy souls.
As a young dad of three kids, my wife and I have been reflecting on how to infuse the lives of the saints more into our home and the hearts of our children as they grow. The more years I have as a dad, husband and teacher, the more I am convinced that bringing young people into contact with the saints brings about profound transformation. There is something about their witness and the concrete nature of their words that convicts us to desire holiness.
As a family, we have incorporated a few practical ways to make the saints more familiar to our kids.
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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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