“HONEY FROM THE ROCK”
Tuesday, 1st November 2016,
Thirty First Week of Ordinary Time
Solemnity of All Saints
Rev 7:2-4, 9-14;
Ps 23:1-6;
1 Jn 3:1-3;
Mt 5:1-12
SAINTS: UNIVERSAL CALL TO HOLINESS!
The saints are those who strived to live here on earth according to the Gospel values. Even after their death’s, they continue to examples of holiness and witnesses to the Gospel. Being fully made of human flesh and blood like our own they desired to achieve holiness. They are the ones who found inspiration in the lives of earlier saints saying “’if he and she can be a saint why not I?”Saints in heaven have the privilege of being in the presence of God continuously. Many of them while here on earth also enjoyed the indwelling presence of God. Heaven is where God is, and God is in our hearts, therefore they found themselves in heaven with God everyday. The saints lived with this awareness and found immense joy from being with the Lord.
The Gospel of today invites us to follow the Beatitudes as a means to attain holiness. How are we to live this life of Holiness? St. Augustine found it hard to live the Beatitudes, but when he read the lives of the saints he said, “if these ordinary women and men could do it, why not I?”
Prayer: Lord You call us to be perfect as Your heavenly father is perfect. Put in us a desire to please You in everything and teach us the way of perfection. Amen.
Copyright ©2013-2016 ©JoyCat, Joy of the Catholic Life: see www.joy-cat.blogspot.com.
