THE UNIVERSAL CALL TO HOLINESS
Today’s feast is not about the canonized saints, but about all the good and holy people who have ever lived. None of us, I feel sure, is expecting to be a canonized saint. We don’t fantasize that one day some pope will declare what saints we were. We don't expect that our picture is going to be revered on the walls of churches. Not for a moment do we imagine anyone saying prayers to us or preserving pieces of us as relics. But in its document on the Church, the Second Vatican Council wrote a chapter called The Universal Call to Holiness. So our Feast today is reminding us of our deep-down calling to become better people than we currently are! It is reminding us that Jesus Christ can and will empower us to practise what he preached and to live what we believe! Surely, then, we won't ever want to stop receiving him as our Bread of Life in Holy Communion!
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