REFLECTION/HOMILY ON (THE SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS) 1ST NOVEMBER 2023
REFLECTION/HOMILY ON (THE SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS) 1ST NOVEMBER 2023 Rev.7:2-4,9-14; Ps.24; 1Jn.3:1-3; Matt.5:1-12a Sainthood, My Goal! “If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am there also is my servant. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him” (John 12:26). It is a common practice for people to have role models. These models are those who have excelled in a chosen carrier in life and so constitute motivators for some others. To have someone as your model means to keep the success of the person in view so that in the future you too may achieve what the person has achieved. As Children of God, today, we celebrate our collective role models: the Saints. They constitutes role models because they once lived in our existential conditions of life. This is what differentiates Saints from Angels. Angels never existed in bodily form on earth and so never experienced the existential conditions of live. On the other hand, Saints were once here on earth with us. Their...