{"id":12943,"date":"2026-10-30T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:41:02","slug":"solemnity-of-all-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2026\/10\/30\/solemnity-of-all-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Solemnity of All Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

GROW AS A DISCIPLE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s feast reminds us that we were not made for this world. We are destined to live with God in his heavenly kingdom. Our first reading from the Book of Revelation contains a vision John received which gives us a glimpse of what we\u2019ll see there: \u201ca great multitude which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb,\u201d crying out his praise in a loud voice. For us on earth, the question is: How do we live so that one day, we will join that chorus of all the saints? The Gospel of Matthew gives us a road map to kingdom living. Those who will inherit the kingdom of heaven are those who are \u201cpoor in spirit,\u201d those \u201cwho hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the peacemakers,\u201d those \u201cwho are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,\u201d and those against whom \u201cevery kind of evil is uttered falsely because of [Christ].\u201d With these words, we\u2019re reminded of the many faces of holiness. May we strive to pattern our lives according to the Beatitudes and so take our place among the ranks of all the saints in heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

GO EVANGELIZE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s responsorial psalm invites us to pray, \u201cLord, this is the people that longs to see your face.\u201d There are so many longings in our hearts \u2013 longings for belonging, longing for love, longing for justice. But the ultimate longing of our heart is for the Lord, even if we don\u2019t yet realize it. Part of our work in evangelization is to help awaken people\u2019s awareness of the ultimate desire of their hearts. As St. Augustine famously wrote, \u201cYou have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.\u201d Spend some time in prayer this week asking the Lord to increase your own longing for him, as well as that of anyone you want to come to know the Lord better.<\/span><\/p>\n

PRAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Being a saint, perhaps, has something to do with longing for the Lord as our greatest and highest good, preferring nothing to him. As St. Thomas was praying before a crucifix toward the end of his life, the Lord said: \u201cYou have written well of me, Thomas. What reward will you receive from me for your labor?\u201d St. Thomas Aquinas responded, \u201cDomine, Non Nisi Te \u2013 Nothing but you, Lord.\u201d May we pray to desire nothing but to be counted among the children of God. For so we are.
\n<\/span>By The Faithful Disciple<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GROW AS A DISCIPLE Today\u2019s feast reminds us that we were not made for this world. We are destined to live with God in his heavenly kingdom. Our first reading from the Book of Revelation contains a vision John received which gives us a glimpse of what we\u2019ll see there: \u201ca great multitude which no…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12945,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions\/12945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}