Six Saints for the Adorer

Companions whose lives were shaped, in different centuries and on different continents, by the same Eucharistic Lord you meet in the chapel tonight.

1991 – 2006 · The Patron of the Internet
St. Carlo Acutis
A teenager who built an online catalog of Eucharistic miracles and lived as though heaven were a real address.
1901 – 1925 · Man of the Beatitudes
Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
A Turin mountaineer and political agitator who carried the poor on his back and the Eucharist in his heart.
1873 – 1897 · The Little Flower; Doctor of the Church
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
A cloistered Carmelite who taught the Church that holiness is mostly hidden, mostly small, and mostly love.
1920 – 2005 · Apostle of the Eucharist
St. John Paul II
The pope who told the Church to renew adoration — and modeled it for twenty-six years before the Blessed Sacrament.
1910 – 1997 · Mother of the Poor
St. Teresa of Calcutta
The nun who fed the dying of Calcutta and insisted that her sisters spend an hour before the Eucharist first.
1811 – 1868 · Apostle of the Eucharist
St. Peter Julian Eymard
The nineteenth-century French priest who built his life — and two religious congregations — around perpetual adoration.

“The saints are not extraordinary people; they are ordinary people who let Christ have everything.”