Candle  for Adoption

Patron Saints for Adoptions:  Saint Thomas More, Saint Clotilde,
and Saint William of Rochester are the Patron Saints of Adoption.
St. Joseph is the patron saint of families.

Saint Thomas More

Born: 7 February 1478, London, England

Feast Days:

• 22 June [Roman Catholic]

• 6 July [Anglican Communion and Traditional Roman Catholics]

Canonized:  1935 by Pope Pius XI

Patron Saint: Adopted children, large families, stepparents, difficult marriages, widowers,  civil servants, court reporters, lawyers, politicians, and people in public service.

Candle can be natural beeswax or:

• White and Golden Yellow for public life
  Adoption: Children and parents like rainbow candles - or substitute with a combination of gold, silver and transparent Veridian-green [or pine needle green]
  Blue-violet and blue for healing family

• Healing Candle
  

Prayer: Blessed is he  who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly   his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. Ezekiel 25:17.

 

 

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
[1966]

BEST PICTURE 39th Annual Academy Awards

Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on his play

 

Sir Thomas More speaks with his daughter Meg

"God more regards the thoughts
of the heart than the words of the mouth."

-Well, so you've always told me.
-Yes.

Then say the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise.

What is an oath then, but words we say to God?

Listen, Meg.
When a man takes an oath, he's holding his own self in his own hands...
  ...Like water.

And if he opens his fingers then,
he needn't hope to find himself again.  

Some men aren't capable of this, but I'd be
loathed to think your father one of them.