Rediscover the Saints

I was handed this book on the way into Mass on Christmas Eve. We were early for service - we had to get there early to get a seat because of the kids' Christmas pageant? - and I felt weird about getting my regular book out of my purse while visiting someone else's church, so how convenient that I had been handed some church-sanctioned reading material! I cracked it open immediately.

I was not raised Catholic, so I never discovered the saints in the first place. Kelly indicated that there are plenty of biographies about the Catholic saints, and that he wasn't going to rehash that info here, but since I hadn't heard of many of the saints, I do wish he had included just a tiny bit of biographical information, like what action propelled them to sainthood, for example, which few of these included.

The chapters were very short, like 2-5 pages each, and were clearly meant to be quick reads with a few nuggets of insight and some personal application, and I did like that. It could maybe have been a little tighter, a little less generic in some chapters, but I gleaned a few things that I think will stick with me regarding prayer and God's call. 3.5 stars.