WEDNESDAY REFLECTION
Mid-week Reflection
4th November 2020
I wonder how often you have said there are not enough hours in the day or days in the week to do all the things I would like to do. Well, here’s a thought….there are not enough days in the year to give each of the Canonised Saints a day of honour to themselves. With great joy, we can add to that conundrum, the number of saintly men and women who are relatively unknown but have lived their lives close to Jesus. The Church recognised this officially in the Year of Our Lord, 840 when the Feast of All Saints, named and un-named, was established. In our school community, there are some who are hugely gifted…..academically, socially, theatrically, musically, lovingly and so on. The majority of us probably count ourselves as fairly average. But all of us, without exception, have within us the possibility to grow in holiness and become saints. God has bestowed His grace upon each one of us and equips us with the ability to succeed. Sometimes young people are canonised; St Maria Goretti, St. Aloysius de Gonzaga and St. Dominic Savio come to mind. Others will be someday, and we can help them by our prayers; Bl. Carlo Acutis and Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati come to mind. But there are many others, mostly unknown to us, and this week, we honour them, too. Have you thought of this? Each time we pray the Apostles’ Creed, we profess our belief in the Communion of Saints. We can be encouraged by the feast of All Saints as they gives us hope that, where they are now, we also might be after our deaths, if we persevere in the virtues of faith, hope and divine charity on this earth.
P.S. Did the Saints and Blesseds mentioned in this article come to your mind? If not, Google!
Let us Pray:
Almighty ever-living God, by whose gift we venerate in one celebration the merits of all the Saints, bestow on us, we pray, through the prayers of so many intercessors, an abundance of the reconciliation with you for which we earnestly long. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Monsignor Monaghan
