The Jesuit vocation was described recently by a member of the Society as being a monk in Times Square. The soldier saint By Rawley Myers Deadly apathy rots the vitals of the Church. A saint is needed to wake people up.
Saints are individuals of zeal and courage.
A saint may be loved or hated, but he cannot be ignored. He is a person of bravery and energy who, because of prayer and humility and divine help, can turn things around. This was St. Ignatius Loyola. He lived in a most turbulant time in the Church, much more confusing than our own. He lived at the time of the Reformation when there was decadence in the Church, and he was the great leader of the Counter-Reformation.