Our journey through November
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It is nice
to have a month to remember the un-named saints. The little saints rather than
the well known bigger Saints. We all know people we have lived with, people who
did not consider themselves saints but were good, compassionate and always
ready to listen to others. And there are
saints we would be surprised to learn that they are included! They may not have
belonged to any particular Church or Religion but they were compassionate,
honest, searchers of the Truth.
Take some
time over the next few weeks and during the month to remember these people. If
we have unresolved issues with people who have already passed into Eternal Life,
it is never too late to be reconciled.
In the
Church we talk about the mystical body of Christ and it is a beautiful image. The
Good News is we all have a place at the table.
As we
remember our saints and the holy souls we not only pray for them but with them
and ask them to help us until we meet again.
Come to
think of it November has its own natural beauty and softness as we journey into
winter and onward toward new life.
The
following may seem relevant.
It is the
conclusion of a poem Aos Óg by Padraig Daly. In it he is
reflects on city life as he gazes out from his window in Dublin city. He sees
the young people full of life and love but perhaps unaware of where it all
comes from.
‘They are happy as we ever were
They do not ask the why of the stars:
This world and its circumstances
suffices them.
They do not think of death or sin,
They harm no one knowingly.
Little they know,
Walking in light down city
promenades,
Answering phones, distracted by
gadgets,
Smothering out transcendence.
That they and all their artefacts
And all the earth and all the fiery
stars
Are plunged in God.”
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