Good News Saints

Welcome to the Saints resource section of Good News Ministries Online!

Naming the Saints
A comprehensive list of Saints' names, their meanings, their Feast Days, and tidbits of information about who each Saint is and what was remarkable about their lives.

Use this resource to:

  • Choose a name for your unborn child.
  • Choose a Saint for your Confirmation name.
  • Find the meaning behind your name and meet your patron Saint.
 Index of Prayer Topics
A complete list of all the prayer topics and their corresponding patron Saints from the book Daily Prayers with the Saints for the New Millennium.

Use this resource to:

  • Look up what you need prayer support for and find a Saint to pray with you.
  • Look up Saints and find their patronages and spiritual guidance.
  • Look up today's date or other special dates and find a Saint and prayer for that day.
  • To search for something, use your computer's "find" command (ctrl-f).

Do you want more prayer power?
Would you like to grow in holiness?

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Author Terry Modica says: "Already my book is helping! I sent the prayer to Saint Alexius (patron saint of the homeless, July 17) to a friend whose ex-husband was homeless, and a day later he had a home to live in! Praise the Lord and thank you Saint Alexius!" (8/26/99, while writing the book)

Would this book be helpful to you or a loved one?

While growing up Protestant, Terry Modica developed a relationship with Jesus. As a teenager she strayed from the faith due to an interest in the occult. Eventually, she was touched by the Holy Spirit, who led her to the Catholic Church. After several years of struggling to understand what role Mary and the saints should have in her life, she experienced a miraculous overnight devotion to the Blessed Mother. Soon after, she began to read about the saints: starting with Padre Pio, St. Frances and St. Clare, and then St. Teresa of Avila. Through studying their lives, these residents of Heaven have become, in a way, her spiritual directors and close friends.

"Those who love you for His sake...will never desert you," says St. Teresa (The Way of Perfection, Chap. IX, 3). Inspired by the awareness that the saints love us and care about us beyond all measure, and that they will come to our aid when we need prayer support and encouragement, Terry Modica wrote this devotional handbook.

You can use this book to experience the friendship and spiritual guidance of hundreds of saints, one for each day of the year. If you desire to grow in holiness, the prayers given here will point you in the right direction, and the saints will lead you by the hand and never let go!

This book is available through your local Catholic bookstore.
To order online, go to The Catholic Store online.

The Foreword to
Daily Prayers with the Saints for the New Millennium
was written by
 author and speaker
Fr. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F.
Director, Claretian Tape Ministry

An overweight man, struggling to mount his horse, prayed, "All you saints of heaven, help me!" He then leaped up on the horse, propelling himself over the saddle and tumbling off on the opposite side. "All right," he said, "only half of you help me this time!"

Saints can be powerful intercessors. In fact, even before being "beatified"—i.e., deemed worthy of the title "Blessed"—it’s required that their God-sourced power be proven by a rigorously authenticated major miracle attributed to them after their death. And that power must be further proven by a subsequent authenticated miracle to entitle them to the appellation of "Saint." These Church-recognized special friends of God, we are reminded by Vatican II, are to be venerated, imitated and invoked.

In the strictest theological sense, Catholics don't pray "to" any angel or saint (even the Virgin Mary), but we do ask them to pray with us and for us (as in the Hail Mary: "pray for us sinners..."). Invoking the intercession of saints is made delightful and easy by the calendared structure of this book. Each prayer can easily be tailored to the reader’s life situations by inserting particular needs and specific people into the wording.

May we all experience the loving exercise of the saints’ power, which they delight in exercising in our lives. Even when mounting a horse!

 

Here's a sample prayer from the book:

January 1
Mary, Mother of God
(blessing the New Year)

Heavenly Father, You blessed the Virgin Mary with the fullness of grace. She is my model of faith, hope, and love. I give this new year to her intercession and ask for her holy prayers. Place my needs into the protection of her motherly love. With her help, I want my faith to grow. Give me an increase in the virtue of hope when troubles tempt me to despair. Guide me in understanding Your infinite love. And join my heart, dear Lord, to the Holy Mother's Immaculate Heart, so that I may improve in loving everyone unconditionally, in imitation of my Savior Jesus. Amen.

See the Index of Prayer Topics