St Brigid DTS-Derry
REGINA: And the name?
EDDIE: When it came to decide upon a name for our new endeavor, we recalled how St. Paul urges us to be “Dead to sin and alive in Christ.” And since we’d be learning about the saints who are only “dead” by the world’s definition but are truly alive in Heaven – and also borrowing a bit from the film we’d just watched, we had our name. We would be the Dead Theologians Society!
Shortly after that, my family and I moved to Newark, Ohio where I became the Youth Minister at St. Francis de Sales parish. And it was at St. Francis that this new idea was put into practice.
REGINA: Why is it so important to study the saints?
EDDIE: The saints were 100% human like us. And other than the Blessed Mother, they all had their share of sins. Like us, they faced temptations and struggles, and they experienced the ups and downs of life.
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