1^st November – All Saints Day

General. The eschatological remembrance of All Saints day reminds us of the heavenly feast of the Angels and Saints together with the Trinity and Mary, the Mother of God. It is the banquet of the Lamb to which every Christian soul aspires while still on earth, the hope of our existence in our pilgrim journey towards eternal bliss. Only that we may remember while celebrating the Eucharist that as the Lamb had to be sacrificed to arrive at His glory, so does a baptised person have to bear his cross to be able to sit at the heavenly table. See Profile

Apocalypse. The number of the basptised who may enter heaven is innumerable and there they will sing praise and glory to God and His Lamb. The baptised are those who have passed through great tribulation and obtained their cleansing by putting on clothes whitened with the blood of the Lamb.

Psalm 22. Only those who have a clean heart and have not given themselves to the joys of the world may ascend Sion and reside in the place of the Lord.

St John’s First Epistle. It is the hope of resembling the Lord when He appears to us, who now live as His sons, that drives us on to love the world with the same love with which the Father has loved us.

St Matthew. The Beatitudes are the corner-stone of holiness which were given as short-cut declarations in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 and the Sermon in the Plain in Luke 6. They confer an end-time blessing on baptised persons who show their mettle when they live up to whom they are, like being poor, and what they do, being a peace-maker. No wonder throughout the ages the Sermon on the Mount has been considered as the practising charter of the baptised Christian.

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