Hope Purifies!

 

30th Week Friday in Ordinary Time

First Reading Rev 7:2-14

Meditation

Do You Know for Certain Someone You Know is a Saint?

Happy Feast of All Saints. It is a great feast indeed. A feast of all declared and non-declared saints. The ultimate aim and purpose of life is to be happy in the present life and life after. All the religions tell us the way to be happy is to attain salvation. To attain salvation in Christian terms means to be in heaven. Those who lived well and lived according to the will of God will be allowed in heaven. All those who are in heaven are saints for us.

Saints pray for us before the Father in heaven. They are model to us. During the liturgical year we have celebrated many feasts of declared stains days but today in particular we think of many who reached heaven but were not declared saints. They may be many of our known people who lived holy lives and died certainly in heaven. They have set an example of a good Christian life, and we need to think of them and pray to them so that they may come to our aid to live an authentic Christian life.

Do we give thought to live well as to become saints?

 

Second Reading 1 Jn 3:1-3

Hope Purifies!

St John invites us to contemplate the incredible love that the Father has shown us,that we are called children of God, and indeed we are. The world may not understand this, because it does not know Him. He reminds believers that we are already God’s children, though what we will become has not yet been fully revealed. But when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Everyone who has this hope purifies themselves, just as Christ is pure.

This hope, that we shall be like Him and see Him as He truly is, should shape how we live now. True Christian hope is not passive; it transforms us. Knowing that we are destined to share Christ’s glory inspires us to live pure, faithful lives today. Holiness becomes not a burden, but a response to divine love, a preparation for the day when we shall see our Father face to face.

Are we are that holiness is response to God’s love?

Mt 5:1-12

The Beatitudes

 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.  And he began to speak and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. “Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.  Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you (Mt 5:1-12).

Saints are those who have purified themselves in the blood of Christ through the trials and tribulations. We read in the book of Revelation, “Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” (Rev 7:14).

Solemnity of All Saints

Would you like to become saint?

Fr Putti Anthaiah, sdb

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