All Saints' Day

Here's what occurs to me today....

  This is a great feast day in the church year, as we celebrate all those holy saints, canonized and noncanonized, who have gone before us into the Kingdom of Heaven and who there, daily serve the Lord Jesus in His very presence!


  St. John the Evangelist wrote about his vision of them in the Book of the Revelation, "Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, 'Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?'   And I said to him, 'Sir, you know.'  So he said to me, 'These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple.  And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.  They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore;  the sun shall not strike them nor any heat;  for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters.  And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."


  Such is the life of the holy saints.  It can be the yearning of every Christian to be there with their Savior and God their Father!  I pray my mother and father are there, my baby brother, my grandparents, my best friend from high school, Stephanie, and other relatives who have passed on.  It will be like no earthly celebration....it will be Heaven!