527 comments on “Nominationtide Is Here!”

1. I would like to nominate:
   Corrie Ten Boom
   ( and Betsie Ten Boom)
   Martin Chemnitz
   Howard Thurman

2. I nominate Henri Nouwen. His spirituality and compassion for all is an inspiration to those who struggle to do God's work.

3. I hope it's okay to nominate two. I previously nominated someone, but also think this woman needs consideration. She was a modern day slave! Her name was Eudicia Tomas Pulido (Lola). A Christian, domestic worker from the Philippines, she is well described in this article written by the son of the family she was enslaved by: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/ I hope you will consider her life one of martyrdom and sacrifice for others -- and you will help make her a saint!

4. i have a bunch for consideration: Fr Damian DeVisteur, St Mary Ann Cope, Joseph Dutton - all workers on Molokai; Ruth and Naomi; St Philip Neri;Emily Dickinson; Henry Thoreau; St Jutta; St Pope John 23; Henri Nouwen; Dorothy Day, Egeria; Queen Emma of Hawaii; hans urs von balthasar;gk chesterton;St Rita of Cascia; St Joanna the Myhrbearer; St Philip Neri; Pandita Ramabai - Indian Christian and Reformer; Dorothy Day; Egeria;; Howard Thurman; Rachel Carson - environmentalist; St Anselm; Thomas Merton; Henri Nouwen - thank you for considering them

5. I nominate St. Jarlath. An Irish saint from the 6th century. We need both "old" and "new" individuals in Lent Madness.

6. John Knox, John Calvin and J.R.R. Tolkien.

7. I want to nominate two of my favorite saints:
   St. Margaret of Scotland, patron saint of my long time church and whose prayer cell I have visited in Edinburgh and St. Hilda of Whitby who, though defeated in the election stayed true to the decision for the Roman rites. She must be pleased at the Celtic views now prevailing in many of our Episcopal churches.

8. I nominate the following, if I may:
   St. Boniface
   St. John Baptist de la Salle
   St. Fidelis of Siigmaringen
   St. Peter Chanel
   St. Louis Grignion de Montfort
   St. Catherine of Siena
   St. Athanasius
   St. Nereus
   St. Achilleus
   St. Damien de Veuster
   St. Pancras
   St. Isidore
   St. Rita of Cascia
   St. Justin
   St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
   St. Ephrem
   I confess going through the RC's missal for the past two months. They all sound most intriguing to me.
   Thank you very much, SEC. I so greatly enjoy Lent Madness every year.

9. St. MArianne Cope
   Brother Joseph Dutton
   Saint Damien
   Queen Emma of Hawaii

10. Nominations:

    1. Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) - her family helped many Jews escape during WWII and were imprisoned for their actions. Israel has named her "Righteous Among the Nations"

    2. Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961; the ELCA commemorates him on September 18th) - Secretary-General of the UN who died in a mysterious plane crash while on his way to a peace-keeping mission and author of "Markings", his "white book" of negotiations with himself and God. Posthumously awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

    3. Eric Liddell (1902-1945; TEC commemorates him on February 22nd) - more than "Chariots of Fire" - missionary to China who lived his faith while in a Japanese civilian internment camp

    4. Venerable Catherine McAuley (1778-1841)- founder of the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland who used the inherited wealth of her guardians to fund services, including education, for the poor, focusing on women and children

    5. Abraham Lincoln

    Blessed Catherine MacCauley

11. Hugh of Cluny
    Hugh of Lincoln
    St. Dismas

12. St. Hripsime - Third century Armenian martyr
    Robert Hunt - First Anglican priest at Jamestown, Virginia
    St. Blaise
    St. John Henry Newman
    Fred Rogers ("Santo Subito!")

    1. Hooray for Fred Rogers! What a wonderful ministry he chose as his life's work!

13. First want to again lodge a vote for opening Lenten Madness nominations to all people of faith. As a Jew who loves (and votes!) every year with my kids, I feel duty bound to point out that the great spiritual masters of history have inspired and informed Christians (think Gandhi inspiring MLK) and vice versa. Just saying...
    But now on with my nominations for the coming year (and yes all 5 were Christians and are now very much dead)
    1. Rose Hawthorne-daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne founded a proto-hospice home for people dying of cancer. She was a direct inspiration to the work of Dorothy Day and many a Catholic Worker spent time in service with her order. Her motto (taken from St Vincent de Paul) "I am for God and the poor."
    2. Mother Maria Skobtsova: lived a life with so many wild twists and turns it sounds straight out of a novel. Eventually she dedicated herself to a life of service to the poor as an Orthodox nun writing that she wanted a life of "complete absence of even the subtlest barrier which might separate the heart from the world and its wounds." When the Nazis took over France she worked on the behalf of Jewish refugees and was eventually arrested and sent to Ravensbruck where she died in the gas chambers.
    3. Fr Christian de Cherge: Dedicated his life to living in solidarity, prayer and friendship with his Muslim neighbors in Algeria. When it became obvious that this would mean his death at the hands of extremists if he persisted he not only stood fast to his mission but offered his forgiveness to his future murderers, writing: "you too my last minute friend...yes for you too I wish this thank you...may we be granted to meet each other again, happy thieves, in paradise, should it please God, the father of us all. Amen! In sh'allah."
    4. Pere Jacques Bunol-the real inspiration for the priest in the film "Au Revoir Les Enfants" (Louis Malle was a student of Pere Jacques.) When his clandestine efforts on behalf of Jews were discovered and he was sent to a concentration camp he made a point of befriending communists and other non Christians for he felt a particular common bond in their shared concern for the poor and was inspired by their bravery. One communist wrote later "One felt the presence of Christ in this priest." When his camp was liberated he worked himself literally to the point of death caring for the liberated prisoners and died weeks later.
    5. St Alphonsus Rodriguez-For 40 yrs he manned the door for a Jesuit community. Literally he just opened the door...but his heart and spirit were so great that slowly an entire city came to love him and no less a saint than Peter Claver who served and fought on behalf of enslaved people pointed to simple St Alphonsus as the inspiration for his heroic efforts. When he died everyone from the viceroy and nobility to the poorest of the poor attended his funeral.

14. Jonathan Myrick Daniels, St. Botolph/Botwulf of Thorney, St. Photini-the woman at the well, St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Andrew, St. Quiteria, St. Thomas, Joseph of Arimathea, J. S. Bach, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Catherine of Siena, Hildegard von Bingen, Alfred the Great, Gregory the Great, Martha and Mary of Bethany, Hagar, Anne Hutchinson, Eric Liddell, Franziska Jagerstatter, Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Thank you.

15. Thomas Bray

16. Saint Philip Neri,  patron saint of humor and joy (feast day coming up, May 26)
    Brother Juniper, the Lord's Jester (feast day January 29)
    Saint Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of lost causes (feast day October 28)
    Saint Joseph of Cupertino,  patron saint of aviation, astronauts, mental handicaps, test taking, students (love the combination!  feast day, September 18)

    Blessings upon your discernment!

17. Margaret of Scotland
    William Robert Hare

18. Cardinal Clemens August von Galen
    The Bishop Who Took On the Führer
    Pope Benedict XVI beatified him in 2005.
    The Lion of Münster’s episcopal motto was nec laudibus nec timore—neither by flattery

    An article appeared in the May. 19, 2017, print edition of the Wall Street Journal

19. I nominate indigenous saints from Canada -
    Gladys Cook - residential school survivor http://www.anglican.ca/about/departments/cir/video/gladys/bio/
    James Settee - indigenous pries in northern Saskatchewan -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Settee
    Charles Pratt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pratt_(Askenootow)

    And a missionary among indigenous people in Canada
    John McKay - http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/sk/payton1974/10.html

    These faithful, though largely unsung, saints of the church, I respectfully submit for your Supremely Excellent Consideration (SEC).

    Marion

20. Now that the eleventh hour is approaching, I've decided to stuff the Nomination Box!
    George
    Elizabeth Romanov
    Maria Skobtsova
    Veronica
    Samuel Seabury
    Thomas Cranmer
    John Mason Neal
    Edward Bouverie Pusey
    Damien of Molokai
    Paul Jones
    Benedict of Nursia
    Martin of Tours
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Paul Jones
    Robert Hunt
    Dismas
    Isidore
    John the Baptist
    Hilda of Whitby
    Maximillian Kolbe
    Olga of Russia
    Anne, Mother of Mary
    Joachim, Father of Mary

21. I nominate Harriet Tubman. Let's annoint her with a halo before she gets on the $20 bill.

22. I nominate Fred McFeely Rogers. An ordained minister, Mister Rogers' ministry of gentle warmth spoke to so many children, and he was a strong, lifelong advocate for better television programming for children.

    I have many favorite quotes from Mister Rogers. One of them is, ""Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."