guide me along. Our own failures, sinful or not, can lead us to be humble before God, patient with ourselves, and compassionate toward others; these qualities are marks of holiness. It has often been the case that saints experience anguish, rejection, or failure for the sake of their living according to gospel values. Saints, we presume, usually committed various sins in their lives on earth, especially in their earlier years. In fact, some of them were well-known sinners for a time. It is also true