May Jesus Christ be praised and may his holy Mother pray for us.
Today is one of my favorite feast days. Today we celebrate the feast of All Saints. It is one of my favorite feast days because I hope
that someday, this will be my feast day and your feast day as well.
All of us were created to be saints and all of us are called
to be saints. What does it mean to be a
saint? It is quite simple, dear brothers
and sisters. A saint is a person who is
in love with God, and who has passed beyond the veil of death. A saint is a person who was in love with God
in this life and now is radiant in the love of God in eternal life. For us, the saints show us how to fall in
love with God, and they pray for us so that we will fall in love with God.
When we celebrate the feast day of a particular saint, we
celebrate the way in which that particular saint fell in love with God and
teaches us to do the same. When we
celebrate the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, we celebrate the great mind that God
gave to him, which he, in turn, gave back to God. When we celebrate St. Therese we celebrate
the childlike confidence that she had.
When we celebrate saints like St. Maximilian Kolbe or St. Toribio Romo,
we celebrate the great apostolic courage of these men. But when we celebrate the feast of All
Saints, we celebrate and we honor all of the various ways that God has called
each of his people to fall in love with him.
Today, we celebrate the ways that God is calling each of us, to fall in love
with Him.
A saint is a person who is in love with God and has passed
beyond the veil of death. We ask the
intercession of all of the Saints today, so that however God calls us, we will
fall in love with Him, and someday, this will be our feast day too.
Preached at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic
Church, Monroe, NC
