What does All Saints’ Day want to tell us?

Holiness is another expression for the growth of love. In Romance and Anglo-Saxon languages, the word holiness has the same root as words that can help us understand what holiness means: salvation, protection, wholeness, healing (Sanctus, santo, saint, healing, holy .). Nevertheless, holiness primarily refers to the process of recovery from sins and its aftermath, overcoming temptations and trials, as well as growing according to God’s will. No one can grow in holiness and yet not grow in merciful love for himself, for others, for God, for nature. So he who resists growth in holiness – and man can defy God’s will and force his will – does not love himself, let alone others, God, nature. Purity is not proved by great deeds but by doing what we do with great love. It would be wrong to think that miracles or extraordinary gifts are proof of holiness, even though the saints have always performed excellent, truly miraculous deeds. Righteousness is a great challenge to resist sin and to Satan, who wants to stop it. That is why every Christian is, by nature, invited to holiness, which is not and cannot be only for some elect. The Virgin Mary, as the Holy Mother, knows all this. He wants to educate us in holiness, which means education in love for his life, for others’ lives, for all creation, and finally for the Creator. In other words, it also means a decision against death, sin, and the influence of Satan. These are also the conditions of our happiness here on earth and the only way to heaven. Our Lady is with us, as she speaks, precisely because of this upbringing in holiness, because of which she remains so long. As a Mother, she can want nothing but our growth and development. Only in this way can she become a Woman who crushes the head of Satan and his descendants, opening the free passage to her children. Only in this way can a Woman be clothed with the Sun, under whose feet is the Moon, when her children dress in the robe of holiness. It is difficult when he tells us that he is reckless, that is, rapidly, we hand over to Satan. We choose to be holy and begin to pray daily for this grace.

Pope John Paul II is the Pope of Records. Did you register that on October 6, 2002, we have 761 saints in the Catholic Church? John Paul II canonized four hundred sixty-three of them. His predecessors proclaimed 298 saints. Also, he announced the Blessed 1297. This pope declared the saints and blessed, so he raised them to the altar and set us as an example, an example of men and women consecrated to God, priests, and monks, but also laypeople, fathers and mothers, but also single, different jobs, age, nationality, education, who lived in our times. Today, their loved ones still live, witnesses of their lives still remember them. Several have remarked about Pope John Paul that he “spews,” declares power to be saints.

Let’s ask: Why? Can saints still reach today’s world? Is holiness possible today? Do we want to be holy? Who is a saint? And similarly. The Apostle St. John writes in the Book of Revelation whether the Apocalypse: “Then I saw; and behold a great multitude that no man could number, of all nations, tribes, breeds, and tongues. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm trees in their hands, and cried out with a loud voice, “Salvation to our God” (Revelation 7: 9-10). When our earthly life is over, to receive from Christ after our personal judgment, the reward for life on earth, to share in God’s kingdom.