Cardinal Filoni delves into God’s relationships with biblical figures, saints in new book

A new book authored by Cardinal Fernando Filoni delves into God’s personal relationships with biblical figures and saints over the past 4,000 years, beginning with Abraham, the father of the faith, and continuing to contemporary saints such as Mother Teresa and Edith Stein.

During a visit to the United States, Filoni, the grand master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, discussed the book, “ My Days Are in Your Hands: Men and Women in the Footsteps of Jesus ,” with Erik Rosales on “EWTN News Nightly.”

“They are not extraordinary,” Filoni said of the holy figures in the book; rather, “they became extraordinary.”

“They were normal people, as all the others in the world, as we are normal people,” he said. “What is important in their life to become extraordinary? They were touched by the grace of God, and they answered to this grace of God.”

Filoni also discussed the book on “EWTN Live” with Father Mitch Pacwa. The book is “not a biography” of the people, Filoni explained to Pacwa, but rather a more specific analysis of their unique relationships with God, how God worked in their lives, and how those experiences relate to God’s relationships with people today.

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