Cool idea, not happy about the implementation..
The controversial Jesuit-focused blogger Not For Sheep has posted a Litany of Jesuit Saints on her blog. Another Jesuit-focused blogger, Disordered Affections, has a post complaining about the same. While I rather like the idea of a litany of saints from a particular community, this one indulges in random 'canonization' of people whose causes have never even been introduced, and several names included are, IMHO, scandalous. It's bad enough we're often 'canonizing' people at their funeral Masses without this sort of thing.
That said, I'm thinking of writing a Litany of Oratorian Saints, but with only those who have been declared Saint, Blessed, or Venerable in my list. Unfortunately, finding material in English on the Oratorian Beati and Venerabili can be like pulling teeth...sigh... Since I'm only including those I know something about, this means it will be a short litany !
The controversial Jesuit-focused blogger Not For Sheep has posted a Litany of Jesuit Saints on her blog. Another Jesuit-focused blogger, Disordered Affections, has a post complaining about the same. While I rather like the idea of a litany of saints from a particular community, this one indulges in random 'canonization' of people whose causes have never even been introduced, and several names included are, IMHO, scandalous. It's bad enough we're often 'canonizing' people at their funeral Masses without this sort of thing.
That said, I'm thinking of writing a Litany of Oratorian Saints, but with only those who have been declared Saint, Blessed, or Venerable in my list. Unfortunately, finding material in English on the Oratorian Beati and Venerabili can be like pulling teeth...sigh... Since I'm only including those I know something about, this means it will be a short litany !
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