The Stained Glass Buffalo: Proving Holiness

30 November 2007

Proving Holiness

Sainthood documentary to air on WNED-TV

"Proving Holiness," a privately funded documentary produced by Daybreak TV Productions of the Diocese of Buffalo, will air Monday, Dec. 3 at 9:30 p.m. on WNED-TV (Ch. 17) in Buffalo. The 60-minute program defines the canonization process through the stories of Monsignor Nelson Baker, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha and Saint Faustina.
Actor Martin Sheen narrates the documentary.

The founder of Baker Victory Services and Our Lady of Victory Basilica in Lackawanna, Father Baker's sainthood cause is being promoted by the Diocese of Buffalo. "It’s exciting that our community can experience the steps of canonization firsthand through the cause of Msgr. Nelson Baker," said Bishop Edward U. Kmiec, bishop of Buffalo. 'Proving Holiness' offers inspiration and a clear understanding of how sanctity is determined."

Following its airing on WNED, "Proving Holiness" will be made available to parishes, religious education programs and Catholic schools throughout the diocese. Plans also call for national and international distribution. www.buffalodiocese.org

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“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”
--Pope John Paul II

Carlo Carretto:

How much I must criticize you, my church, and yet how much I love you! You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe more to you than to anyone. I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence. You have given me much scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness. Never in this world have I seen anything more compromised, more false, yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous or more beautiful. Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face - and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your sure arms! No, I cannot be free of you, for I am one with you, even if not completely you. Then too - where would I go? To build another church? But I could not build one without the same defects, for they are my defects. And again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ's church. No, I am old enough, I know better.