Tuesday, November 1
SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS
Echoes in the halls of time
A passage from the novel Middlemarch by George Eliot expresses the heart and spirit of All Saints Day: “. . . For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” On All Saints Day we celebrate those who lived a “hidden life.” At the same time we are reminded that, to paraphrase another author, Henry Adams, our actions affect eternity; we can never tell where their influence stops. Today, before we speak or act impulsively, we might take a deep breath and ask ourselves, “How will these words, this deed, affect eternity?”TODAY’S READINGS: Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew 5:1-12a (667)
“Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not been revealed.”
CONTRIBUTORS
Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O'Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.
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