All Saints

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All Saints Day

Speaking about All Saints is a very meaningful subject for me. We are speaking about the perfection of humanity as we know it and we are referring to the way in which God works within us.  Two subject and one work. God and humanity under the perfecting hand of God. "There he will sit refining the sons of Levi." Every person that has undergone this journey and followed Jesus has become what Jesus expected of them and they have become a "new creation."  "Where can we go Lord, you have the words of eternal life." Let us be fearful of God because he deserves the respect, reverence, and adoration from all creation, but today there seems to be a forgetfulness of God. What is surprising is the servile fear people have of the powerful of the world over the true power of God. In the end what power will we live before for all eternity but the power of God? Yet, God has never and will never leave out side and that is everyone, yet because of free will we can live our life in such a way that he can be so close, but we can remain so far from our minds and hearts. When we read the life of a Saint or their writings we are struck by the directness of their life and how they speak about God so clearly and mindfully. 

Living for God

They allowed themselves to be caught up in the Mystery of faith and to live it in a way it was eternally meaningful to them. Now, because of their choices they live that life for all eternity. Each of us is given an opportunity to follow Jesus and we need to make many decisions between the call we receive and the point of our final breath. As the Psalmist says so graphically and "Most of them are toil and sorrow; they pass quickly, and we are gone," (Ps. 90:10) speaking of the years that slowly separate us from those we love, the world, and those things which pass away. If we live our lives faithfully God gives us a new life in him and he replaces those things with that which will never pass away, which he called "treasures in heaven," and which St. Paul  said very succinctly in the words "no eye has seen, no ear heard, nor has it entered the mind of man what God has prepared for those who love him." Jesus simple called this reality "enter into the Joy of your Lord," when speaking of his blessing that will fall upon those who have waited patiently for his presence to take them to that "place," in his Father's house where he has gone ahead too "prepare a place," for them, so that where he is they also may be. May Mary, the faithful woman from Nazareth and his Mother and ours by his gift, be our consolation along this way.