The Saint Challenge
Discover Your Purpose. Deepen Your Faith. Live Like the Saints.
Are you searching for clarity, purpose, and a deeper relationship with Christ? Are you ready to move beyond passive belief and put your faith into action?
Revised and updated for 2026, The Saint Challenge is more than a saints encyclopedia or a “saint of the day” calendar—it is a 365-day Catholic devotional designed to transform your spiritual life. Drawing from the powerful witness of the saints, this book invites you to grow in holiness through daily inspiration, reflection, and concrete action.
Based on the popular daily email and podcast of the same name, each day you will encounter:
- A concise and engaging biography of the saint of the day
- A practical daily challenge, inspired by that saint’s virtues and life circumstances
These challenges are rooted in the heart of Catholic spirituality and include:
- Corporal and spiritual works of mercy
- Catechesis that deepens your understanding of Church teaching
- Practices that strengthen your interior life of prayer and discipline
Through these daily encounters, the saints stop being distant figures of the past and become companions, mentors, and examples for your own journey. Some you’ll even come to regard as dear friends.
What You’ll Gain from The Saint Challenge
- Encounter saints from every era of Church history—from the Apostles and early martyrs to modern-day witnesses
- Learn Church history through the lives of the men and women who shaped it
- Deepen your understanding of Catholic doctrine, devotion, and tradition
- Be inspired and equipped to grow in personal holiness—and help others do the same
The Church has faced crisis before. As you read about the saints enduring war, persecution, scandal, poverty, plague, heresy, and schism, you will discover a powerful truth: the challenges of our age are not new. The saints lived faithfully in times just as difficult—and often far worse—than our own.
They came from every walk of life: rich and poor, scholars and laborers, clergy and laity, missionaries and martyrs, the young and the old. What united them was not comfort or circumstance, but their radical trust in God and their willingness to act on their faith.
Their lives testify to the transforming power of grace—and offer a roadmap for living boldly as Catholics today.
The Saint Challenge turns the witness of these holy men and women into a daily call to growth, courage, and conversion. Over the course of a year, you will come to understand not only the saints themselves, but the prayers, hymns, doctrines, and traditions they helped form—and realize that the story of the Church is still being written.
This is not just a book.
It is a call to action.
A guide for living the Great Commission.
An invitation to reclaim your faith—and help reclaim the world for Christ.
The saints have shown us the way.
Now it’s your turn to take the challenge.
- Over 450 pages
- Includes a section with 35 common prayers
- A great gift for catechumens, 1st Communion, those preparing for Confirmation, and graduation
