2008-07-24 August 2008 is Officially Pray for PZ Myers Month

2008-07-24 Jeff Vehige \PZ Myers\2008 sacred wafer scandal\Catholic viewpoint http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080801232118/http://catholic-teaching.org/2008/07/august-2008-is-officially-pray-for-pz-myers-month/ August 2008 is Officially "Pray for PZ Myers Month" &ldquo;I will encourage you to make August a month of prayer for PZ Myers. But let's not just pray for his conversion. Let's be a little more daring. Let's pray that he will become our next St. Paul – not an the Apostle to the Gentiles, but an Apostle of the Eucharist.&rdquo;  I will encourage you to make August a month of prayer for PZ Myers. But let's not just pray for his conversion. Let's be a little more daring. Let's pray that he will become our next St. Paul – not an the Apostle to the Gentiles, but an Apostle of the Eucharist. This isn't as odd as it might sound. One theme running throughout the lives of the saints, especially saints that lives worldly lives before their conversion, is this: Their greatest sins became the foundation of their holiness. St. Paul persecuted the Church, and so God used him to build up the Church. St. Augustine lived a life of fleshly pleasure, so God made him the one to clarify the Christian view of conjugal love and made him the model of acesticism. St. Ignatius of Loyola longed to be a military man, and so God made him the head of, at one time, one of the most influential religious orders in the world. And little Therese Martin was extremely selfish in the smallest things of life, so God used her to teach the world how to become extraordinarily holy by giving Jesus the smallest of our acts.   