All Saints Day is a high feast of the Church and it often Get's me talking about saints and inevitably leads to some bask . What is it that makes a saint a saint? who do we recognize as a saint? Are there only Christian Saints?
Some examples: The Saints of New Orleans, The Carroll College “Fighting Saints” in Helena Montana; Grandparents; Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Perhaps even the Dalai Lama?
I Sing A song of the saints of God, patient and brave and true, who toiled and fought and lived and died for the Lord they loved and knew…
I’m not sure what it is, but this hymn is a favorite. Is it the tune, which I kind of catchy and leaves you humming it well into the next period? Or is it the words. Regardless, this is the week we talk about saints. And why not, We have the convergence of the secular and the sacred. For as we all know Thursday is Halloween, that must mean that Friday, Nov 1, is all Saints Day.
Here we are. Another Halloween. A trip to the store in the last month or so revealed pallets, I mean pallets of candy, candy candy.
