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26/6/2016

01/11/2017 -  All Saints 

01/11/2017 -  All Saints 

Reading 1, Revelation 7,2-4.9-14 * Psalm 23 * Reading 2, First John 3,1-3 * Gospel, Matthew 5,1-12

What does the word «saints» mean? Only God is Saint, that is to say only God lives a perfect love, a love that is not subject either to the goodness or to the meanness of men. Only God is Saint, that God that knows only how to love. And His only Begotten, the Son, is called «God’s Saint», because He lives the same love of the Father without interruption and to the point of giving His life for it. We give this title «saint» to men as well, but not to all of them, only to whom in which life shines some ray of God’s sanctity. Those who have followed and follow Jesus, that listen to Him and live according to His wisdom, these are those who carry the sanctity of God and of His Son! As a matter of fact, they chose poverty, chose not to depend at all on wealth, that makes us grow nearer to the «the prince of this world», in order to be free to obey the Father. They do not complain about worries and sufferings, because they want to carry their cross following Jesus. They still do not imitate the enemy in his haughtiness and his claims, and they keep being gentle, simple, serene in every situations, because they know that everything, space and time, belong to God. Who follows Jesus is looking for occasions to live mercy, because this is the inclination that touches God’s heart and makes it shine upon the earth. And again, they live purity of heart in every field of existence: in this way, in their eyes shines the light, and they are not ashamed to look everybody in the face. Who follows Jesus wishes and wants to do always the Father’s will, and they will ask Him for this with intense prayer, even if they have to suffer for it mockery and violence from those who follow men’s opinions. Joy becomes the trait of the life of the true believer: they are happy when, because of Jesus, everybody speaks evil about them, slanders them and persecutes them.

All these behaviors are those we can see our Lord Jesus Christ live, and that He listed when, on the mountain, he began addressing the disciples and the crowds. He said to them “Blessed…”, and it was like he would have said “Look at Me, I am like this, and you too will be like this if you stay with me. If you live with me you will never become famous and desired in this world. When you are with me will flow peace and joy within you instead, and only who is suffering and is sad will search for you. In you they will find somebody who listens and words of comfort, they will find understanding and words of support, they will find light and words of simple and pure faith”. This is it then, whoever is with Jesus and without shame follows Him, they become blessed, so to speak they live a life full and rich of beauty, and they can be called saints, because they make shine on earth, inside the darkness of this world, the beautiful sanctity of  God our Father.

We are celebrating today this sanctity, appeared and spread on earth in the hearts and the works of men: we call them saints, because they are like stars shining in the darkness of the sky. We are also celebrating mine and your sanctity, not only that of our brothers’ and sisters’, that now every day are celebrating in God’s heaven!

In some place this feast is preceded by a day dedicated almost to celebrate the enemy of God and man. In this way adults and children do not prepare to welcome inside them and to live, in their thoughts and in their words, the beauty and the goodness of the Father. The enemy’s cunning, who wants to ruin the saint communion of the faithful, comes up with new tricks every day. Are we not going to be more clever than him? We are not interested in giving him any importance, that is to say we are not interested in giving him any time or money, not even attention. Our attention must be turned to those who live the life that we desire for eternity.

The feast of All Saints is Jesus’ feast, who can see the fruits of His labor, the fruits of His passion and of His death. He can see today the great number of people that, thanks to Him, have risen from the death coming from sin and live in the Father’s heart, become one with His love.

We can sing then joyfully together the Hallelujah of the redeemed, the song of whom have happily lived the beatitudes: “Amen. Praise and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honour and power and strength to our God for ever and ever. Amen”. They are “a huge number, impossible for anyone to count, of people from every nation, race, tribe and language; … They shouted in a loud voice, 'Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!'”.