Solemnity of All Saint Mt 5,1-12

Most of us keep wishing our close friends health and happiness for the New Year or on personal holidays (name-day, birthday). However, we probably haven’t considered wishing something similar to our friends today, on All Saints’ Day. After all, in our churches today, we read the words of Jesus, which are a blessing or a blessing of something good. When Jesus told some people they were blessed, he wished them well-being, goodness, blessings… We read these wishes and blessings of Jesus in our church today to show ourselves and wish for what should be the greatest in life – holiness, friendship with God, and a righteous life according to God’s will. These goals are achieved by the people we call saints – whether they are Christians like in ancient Rome who preferred to die rather than deny their hope in Christ, or they are Christians of later times who heroically served their fellowmen, prayed sincerely, or performed exceptionally your profession. Today’s All Saints’ Day is a joint celebration of all these people who made it and who deserve not to be forgotten. Today, we also remember them by wishing to achieve something similar. 

In addition, he knows the words of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew, he notices that they are strange twice. First, they wish well-being and good even to people from whom we would not expect any great good since they are poor, thirsty, or even persecuted. We do not have to ask whether we would like to belong to people with low incomes or the persecuted. None of us desires such a thing. But it is also true that sometimes we find ourselves in such situations, or many other people find themselves in them, and then it is essential to ask how to manage these situations. Jesus’ answer is: It can be done if you do not desire power and wealth but the kingdom of heaven. Then, if you are poor, you will become rich through the kingdom of heaven. If you are a weeper, you will rejoice through the kingdom of heaven. If you are trampled, you will gain influence through the kingdom of heaven. If you hunger for righteousness, you will be filled through the kingdom of heaven. If you are merciful, you will receive mercy. If you have a sincere mind, God himself can be known to you. If you spread peace, God himself will accept you as his own. If you are persecuted for the right cause, you will win through the kingdom of heaven. So, all this can be managed if we desire the kingdom of heaven. However, this is the second thing about Jesus’ words, which seems strange to us – that he wishes us something as big as the kingdom of heaven. Why not expect the poor to get rich and the one down to get up? 

The answer is simple, although only apparent to some. Poverty is not balanced by wealth or persecution balanced by power, but only by the kingdom of heaven. Especially when, like Jesus, we do not mean by the kingdom of heaven some fairy-tale chamber of God, but a situation of understanding with God, people, and ourselves, a state of faith, hope, and love, to which we have reached as a gift from God. It was enough to open this gift. It is similar to when, after 20 years since the democratic revolution, people compare what they have gained or lost. We know that some people, unlike the situation under the so-called socialism, became incredibly rich. So that not only a few become rich but the whole country is lifted. For this, it was necessary not to exchange poverty for wealth but for the poor to obtain the kingdom of heaven, just as Jesus said, so that we strive for wisdom and humanity and a sense of justice and respect for honest people. That we strive to live with trust in God, not in people. One can only hope that if we have succeeded in something so far and are doing well, it is thanks to the efforts of at least some of us.  On All Saints’ Day,

Our church remembers God’s saints from the Roman martyrs until today. The church still has martyrs today. I knew some personally. We also know other good people who live perhaps modestly but honestly and with great love. Some are known by the entire town, others only by the closest few. But they are here among us. It is enough to walk through our cemeteries and notice. At the grave of someone we know, we might think that he died early, at another, that he was a freak, and at another, that the person had an ordinary life. Indeed, while walking through the cemetery, we will also find many such acquaintances and friends with whom we will feel peace, strength, and gratitude. Then we say to ourselves: He was a good person. We are not afraid to say that even a saint. Thanks to the prayers of Jesus and our responses to them, thank God, holiness is not as rare as some think. So, I wish us all well-being, goodness, and blessings. I want to for the kingdom of heaven, lived and realized every day here, among us.