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Hi, I'm Father Jim Martin.

I'm about to lead you through a traditional Jesuit prayer

to help you notice where God has been in your day.

But first, here's our weekly reflection.

This week we celebrate the feast days of some of the greatest saints in the church.

St. Francis of Assisi, St. Gregory the Great, St. Jerome,

and my favorite of all saints, St. Therese, of Liseu.

So here's a question to think about.

What part did the saints play in your life?

For some of us, they've always been an important aspect of our spiritual lives.

We see them as the church sees them, as our patrons and companions.

In other words, we ask them for their prayers from their posts in heaven, and they provide

us with models of the Christian life.

As the Jesuit theologian Carl Ronner once said, a saint teaches us to be a Christian

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