Dear Friends,
I know I did All Saints Day and All Souls Day last week, but
this time of year the sweeping winds and swirling leaves and shortening
days somehow keep before my mind’s eye the topic of saints and life beyond our
known life. This week, however, I’ll be brief and offer for your delight some
thoughts from a man named Matthew R. Brown. Though I can’t provide you with any
information about the author, his words speak to us of the vastness of the
great cloud of witnesses of which we will be a part when we cross over. Brown
writes:
It is the glory of
the Church that it cannot name all the saints.
It is the glory of
the Church that it cannot remember all the saints.
It is the glory of
Christ that we cannot count all the saints…
The faithful cling to
the roots of the saints, growing up from the ground.
How many saints there are, with more becoming so every day.
Now go out and be sainted.
Be
saintly. It is a daring adventure beyond imagining in God’s love story with
people like you and me.
~Joan Sobala, SSJ
