TWO GREAT SAINTS

The catholic church teaches that sex is a sacred act and should only take place between two married people, husband and wife. Catholic priests and nuns take the vow of chastity. This is essential for a single person to lead a holy life.

In todays world a lot of people don't regard the sex act as sacred and degrade it and themselves in the process.

Two great saints who regarded the sex act as being sacred were Saint Lucy and Saint Maria Goretti. We need saints such as these to show us the way.

There are a lot of different stories about saint Lucy. She lived a long time ago and as the story goes she is said to have had very beautiful eyes. She wanted to give her life to God and remain a virgin and become holy in the process. A nobleman wanted to marry her but she refused. Because of her rejection of him, he had her thrown into prison and had her eyes cut out. Her feast is celebrated by the church each year on Decemember 13.

More is known about Saint Maria Goretti. She died in 1902 at the age of twelve. A youth in the town where she lived made advances towards her. She was a very religious girl and refused the youth. The youth became angry and stabbed her several times. She died a couple of days later. On her deathbed she forgave the youth. Her feastday is celebrated on July 6.

Young people today have many people who have achieved great feats to emulate. People such as tennis stars, football stars, cricketers and the like. Pope John Paul II cannonised nearly three hundred people saints for us to follow. As I have said before catholic saints a holy people who have led extraordinary lives.

The following are poems about Saint Lucy and Saint Maria Goretti.

SAINT LUCY
by
J. A. Fullerton

From Bethlehem to Calvary Our Blessed Lord did suffer
From insults and accusations that many of His time did mutter
And all the saints that followed did walk a similar path
For many of their time would curse them
Or look at them and laugh.
And Saint Lucy like the rest was no exception to the rule
For she too was accused by so many of being nothing but a fool
For she was determined to give herself to God
And remain a virgin all her life
But so many did seek her hand
And wanted her to be their wife.
And one rejected suitor did not take the rejection all too well
And gouged out Lucy’s eyes for there was no wedding bell.
And Saint Lucy is an example for all of us today
To remain pure and chaste like her
Until our spouse ‘I do’ we do say.


SAINT MARIA GORETTI
by
J. A. Fullerton

Maria’s father died when she was very young
And her mother had to work hard till all was done
In the year of nineteen hundred and two
Maria’s very short life was almost through
At the tender age of just twelve years old
An eighteen-year-old youth became more than bold
Her innocence he did try and take away
But to him she said, “I’d sooner die any day”
He stabbed and mortally wounded her with a knife
And two days later she lost her life

Alexander the youth was unrepentant until he had a dream
He was in a garden down by a steam
He saw Maria walk up to him
And with a bunch of flowers his soul she did win
In 1950 Maria was canonized a saint
In the crowd at St. Peter’s that day Alexander did wait
For with her death Maria’s forgiveness didn’t end
Far beyond it did extend
Maria is a model of purity for all youth today
We need witnesses like her to show us the way.