Author: Fr. Jason

All Saints Day

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All Saints Day

Ever since we can remember we have longed to be members of a group.  When we were children, we longed to be with our parents.  When we first went to school, we longed to be accepted by friends.  As we grow up, we embrace our nationality, our ethnicity, our culture, our heritage.  We long to be in relation to one another, by things which we share in common.  We long for this because God created us in his image, and he is a communion of persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  God is a social being, and so are we.  We are born into a family and journey toward a greater family, the communion of saints in heaven.      God has described the journey in the beatitudes.

Sunday – Ordinary Time – Week 29 – Year B

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Sunday – Ordinary Time – Week 29 – Year B

Apparently there are 7.4 billion people in the world, and we are the servants of all of them. It can be a bit overwhelming to think about. If we gave one penny to each person, we would need 70.4 million dollars. If we gave each person one second of our time, we would need to live 14,400 years. The temptation is to consider it impossible and to give up before getting started. If God had made us purely physical beings, it would be impossible. But because we are spiritual beings, a single work, for example a prayer, has the capacity of reaching all.