
2021: A Year For, Of, About, and With, Many Changes!
Happy New Year! I am late with writing our first newsletter. I kept scrapping everything I wrote but it’s time to get one done.
2021 is a Year for Lots of Changes with more to come – with prayers for cathartic hopefulness.
And, Overall, a Shifting Prepositional Tone with the 2021 SaintsforSinners Newsletters
A few more chapters of the book rob is working on have finally been finished and he has created a nice outline that’s possible to follow and begin moving further toward completion. So far, the stories of Saint Bernard, Saint Rosalie, along with Saint Maria Goretti, Dismas and the Miraculous Medal have weaved together fairly seamlessly. We offer thanks to the weaver’s saint, Anastasia, for helping us band anecdotes, undo knots, connect dots and whatnot to recall a simple story of a simple life. Again, with hopefulness and catharsis themed in a way that’s all kinds of exciting! Easy? No. Exciting? Yes!
So, as we said, our bit of change is that there will be a tone of Reflection tied to SaintsforSinners Newsletter in their 2021 versions. The new tone has the goal of writing kindly with the reader and less ceremoniously to the reader.
Of course, Those Sacramental Ornamentals – the saint medals and the saint stories will obviously continue taking Center Stage. The saint medals – it’s all about the saints and their medals, always was, shall always be. News of what we are doing with freshly designing their painting and presentation, and also, this is NEWEST: sharing, showing, and displaying vintage medals we have collected throughout the years. As you know, we’ll have a Saint Medal Show at Paperwhite Stationery Boutique in Baton Rouge. We have so many items, icons, cards and medals from cities across the country and Europe.
When COVID is under control, we’ll have saint medals from Mexico's Mexico City, paying homage to Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego and also, Peru’s Saint Rose of Lima, (one of her schools, incidentally, being one of Bruce Springsteen’s Alma Maters). Hmmm – was that school tied to his song, “Rosalita?”
MORE ABOUT 2021
One Saint medal(s) quite curious is Saint Joseph’s Medals
Pope Francis Has Declared 2021 the Vatican’s Year of Saint Joseph. His saint medals are as varied as are his stories. First of all, he has two, not one, renown hagiographic images.
Saint Joseph’s Two Medals:
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Saint Joseph the Worker with Hammer and
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Saint Joseph with the Lily (Fleur-de-lis) and Christ Child