SAINT OF THE DAY
WITH UNCLE EDDY
Navigating today’s world is tough and all of us could use a nudge in the right direction. Figuring out the right path to take at work, college, or in social situations is not always easy. Looking to the lives of the saints can give us the insights we need.
Written by Fr. John Bartunek, LC, Uncle Eddy’s Saint of the Day is a fictional series of letters written by a man who has been imprisoned for the Catholic Faith. Using the saints of the day as examples, Uncle Eddy pens a daily letter with spiritual advice to his many nieces and nephews.
St Laurence O’Toole
Dear Larry, Do I detect an air of surprise in your last note? But why are you surprised? Are you the first to be spoken badly of by the very people you are trying to help? Hardly. If they are trying to brand you “arch conservative” and “homophobic” and “misogynist” and “hypocritical” simply because you are doing what you can to get the Church’s teaching aired in that relativism-infested atmosphere on campus, that’s par for the course. “Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and speak all kinds of evil against you on my account…” (Matthew 5:11), ...
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St Raymond Nonnatus
Dear Roy, A bit overwhelmed, eh? Yes, you’ve definitely begun a new stage of life. College is, well, different, as you say. So much freedom, so much opportunity, so many activities-resources-choices… Many freshmen spend their whole first year being swept away by the excitement of the overwhelming tide. And they ...
St Margaret Ward
Dear Marge, You are being led astray by one of the devil’s oldest tricks: condemning the sinner because of the sin. I hope you don’t mind if I venture a bit of advice. In the first place, remember that you have only just arrived on campus. Do you really think ...
The Beheading of John the Baptist
Dear Buffy, I knew this was going to happen. Even so, I’m glad it happened sooner rather than later – it gives me a chance to arm you against vanity right at the beginning of your college career (I know you’ll thank me for this at graduation – whether or ...
St Augustine
Dear Aggie, You have already begun putting together your résumé? Are you in a rush to be done with your senior year? I guess that’s OK, though since you need to do senior year in order to graduate (which is your immediate goal), I imagine God has at least one ...
St Monica
Dear Monique, I don’t see why you have to give up on your professors. You just started classes! What did you do, make a list after your first week and cross off the poor teachers who are blinded by atheism and poisonous ideologies? Did you just write them off? Is ...
St Teresa of Jesus Ibars
Dear Elyria, It’s a good sign that you’re racking your brains to come up with an apostolic idea acceptable to all sensibilities in the Catholic Student Association. It shows that you’re in tune with the Holy Spirit, who always pushes us (sometimes gently, sometimes less so) to give away whatever ...
St Joseph Calasanz
Dear Carl, I shall, without doubt, be keeping you in my prayers. You certainly have a lot cut out for you this year, not the least of which is full responsibility for the Catholic Student Union, now that the chaplaincy has been dissolved. Your plan for the year looks good ...
St Bartholomew
Dear Nate, I don’t have much time (they’ve started forcing me to do physical labor now, so my schedule is less flexible; as regards types of suffering, I kind of prefer the labor, I think, since it is less oppressive than idleness – I wonder which wins more graces), but ...
St Philip Benizi
Dear Nicki, I think you have set yourself a false dilemma. Just because you think you may have a vocation to the consecrated life doesn’t mean you should lay off your intellectual formation. As long as you are discerning your vocation ACTIVELY (not just sitting around thinking about it and ...
The Queenship of Mary
Dear Regina, Am I wrong, or have you been reading Harlequin Romances again? You gave yourself away in your last email – to say that you are “positively and passionately convinced” that God wants you to find a boyfriend this year, that you “feel surging through your veins and your ...
St Pius X
Dear Pia, So you’re finally off to college. It’s sounds like a cliché, but truly it seems like just yesterday when your mother was toting you around in that lavender papoose. Time flies. Your college days will fly by too. Four years looks like a veritable ocean of time right ...
St Bernard
Dear Ernie, You underestimate the power of love. Let me say it again: you are UNDERESTIMATING the power of Christian love! The world is made of societies, societies are made of communities, communities are made of people, and people do good or evil depending on the direction their heart is ...
