Unbreakable: Saints Who Inspired Saints To Moral Courage
There’s a long lineage of popes that can be traced back to Saint Peter. There’s a generational thread that runs from you, to your mother, and her mother, and on and on. And there’s also a lesser known, sometimes less visible link that runs amongst saints. In Unbreakable: Saints Who Inspired Saints to Moral Courage, author Kimberly Begg dives into how saints not only inspire saints, but encourages them to rise to the occasion in the face of immorality.
“We are living in a moment of great confusion,” Begg says, “where even many Catholics don’t understand who they are and why they were made; that they were born at a particular time and place, surrounded by the people in their lives, for a particular purpose; that at critical times in their lives, doing God’s will means choosing Christ over the comforts and approval of the world; and that there is beauty and honor in suffering and sacrificing for Christ.”
Unbreakable tells the stories of the saints in a way that’s never been done before—in a more complete way that incorporates the favorite saints of some of the Church’s most courageous saints, and highlights moments in their lives that helped them develop a habit of acting courageously for Christ in the world.
“Too many parents today are trying to find a way around the cross for their children,” Begg says. “They want their children to ‘get along’ with and ‘get ahead’ in the world. But the idea that sacrifice and suffering can be avoided on the path to heaven has no grounding in sacred scripture or the traditions of the Church.”
Begg calls the stories of the saints the “birthright” of all children because “saints inspire saints.” “And yet,” she says, “most Catholics are unfamiliar with the fascinating stories of how the saints have helped each other throughout the history of the Church, inspiring each other and interceding for each other, even crossing the divide between heaven and earth.”
The saints in Unbreakable are real-life heroes who courageously took up their crosses, imitating Christ’s sacrificial love on their path to heaven—a path that was familiar to them because of the saints who came before them. With special appeal to young people, Unbreakable features fourteen saints: five children and teenagers who exhibited heroic virtue in fulfilling God’s plan for their lives.
Begg’s hope is that Unbreakable will help Catholics embrace Christ’s instruction in John 16:33: “In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world!”
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