November 1 st, 2026 (All Saints )

Dear brothers and sisters, today the Church celebrates the solemnity of All Saint. It Is a very joyous feast in which we can witness the work of God in the life of so many different people men and women. We too like them are called to be saints, all of us. Today we are called to believe that the beatitudes that we have listened to are for us a promise of the eternal life God wants to give us. Christ wants to live in you and in me through our baptism. Christ lived in the saints despite their poverty and their sins this is what they all have discovered, the forgiveness of their sins and the total gratuitousness of the love of God. No matter how much you might have sinned, we too are called to wash our robes in the “blood of the lamb” and make them white as wool. The mercy of God can make of the greatest sinner a saint. God calls you and me to believe in his love for us, that in Jesus Christ, he has forgiven us all our sins and that he can give us his spirit of  love receiving a totally new nature. We can carry inside of us this witness:  “The kingdom of God is within you.” The word saint or holy in the Jewish tradition means separated. The saints are separated from the world they are different. Like the people of Israel, they live amid the world and the nations but are not like them, they stand out. The holiness of God and the glory of God is manifested through Israels poverty and a special way of precariousness through which he leads them. For us this special way is the cross. God uses the cross to make us holy and separated from the world. In my cross I can discover through faith  the love of God for me. it is truly the tree of eternal life, in it I find life, like the saints I can cling to it and in my weakness there can be seen the glory and power of God.

Peace, Fr. Nicholas