You, too, can be a saint. Just ask Fr. Cameron Faller

For reassurance about your ability to become a saint, please listen to my Q&A with Fr. Cameron Faller, Pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco.

Holy Name will be celebrating its 100th anniversary on October 26, 2025
100 Years of Faith – Holy Name of Jesus Parish Centennial Celebration

St. Hildegard of Bingen is an exceptional saint who was blessed with many gifts and knowledge direct from God. But how many of us can be that great. Most of us can’t; it’s impossible. However, we can still be saints, simple saints. If we surrender to God and let Him guide us, then we can become the kind of saint that God intended us to be. We don’t need to be copycat saints (although we are to imitate Jesus) because God has a specific plan for each us. Let God create in you the saint you were meant to be.

Saint Hildegard on the saints:

The golden altar is to be understood as the works of the saints, which they did while still abiding in the body and which flash like a golden altar in the sight of God, for by these works they imitated the Lamb, that is, the son of God.

389 Prayers and Meditations about Prophesy, The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen Volume III

Then, also, I heard the sound of a voice, as out of pure water, saying: This beautiful garden belongs to God almighty, and it is arrayed with the loveliest of flowers and with the beauty of all viridity, on which God feasts His eyes to His Delight. And this sound flew from the fiery air of the Holy Spirit, because every longing from the blessed elect and the saints flows from the fountain of the Holy Spirit, as it is written: “Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:38)

379 A Vision about Mankind’s Desire Wholly Directed toward the Lord’s Passion. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen Volume III