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ALL SAINTS

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1. The Church in this great festival honours all the saints. It is an image of that eternal great feast which God himself continually celebrates in heaven with all his saints, whom we humbly join in praising his adorable goodness
#AllSaintsDay #AllSaints

2. for all his mercies.

In this and all other festivals of the saints, God is the only object of supreme worship.

To what an immense height of immortal glory has he raised the saints! and by what means? His grace conducted them by humility, patience, charity, and penance,

3. through ignominies, torments, pains, sorrows, mortifications, and temptations to joy and bliss, by the cross to their crowns.

And casting their crowns before his throne they give to him all the glory of their triumphs. "His gifts alone in us he crowns."

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4. We are called upon with the whole church militant on earth to join the church triumphant in heaven in praising and thanking our most merciful God for the graces and glory he has bestowed on his saints.

5. How does the Saints' immortality inspire us with a contempt of the inconstant, false honours of this world; despise the false empty pleasures of this life, and trample under our feet the threats and persecutions of a blind world, with all that we can suffer from it or in it!

6. There is but one Gospel, but one Redeemer and divine Legislator, Jesus Christ, and but one Heaven.

No other road can lead us thither but that which he has traced out to us: the rule of salvation laid down by him is invariable.

It is a most pernicious and false persuasion

7. either that Christians in the world are not bound to aim at perfection, or that they may be saved by a different path from that of the saints.

The world imperceptibly instils this error into the minds of many, that there is a kind of middle way of going to heaven
#Christian

8. because the world does not live up to the gospel, they bring the gospel down to the level or standard of the world.

It is not by the example of the world that we are to measure the Christian rule, but by the pure maxims of the gospel.
#Bible #Gospel #Jesus #Christian #faith

9. All Christians are commanded to labour to become holy and perfect, as our heavenly Father is perfect.

We must study to die to ourselves. By the frequent use of the sacraments, assiduous prayer, pious reading, or meditation, and the practice
#NotOfThisWorld #Christiantwitter

10. of devout aspirations, we must unite our souls to God.

This crucifixion of self-love and union of our hearts to God are the two general means by which the Spirit of Christ must be formed and daily improved in us, and by which we shall be imitators of the saints.

#Jesus

(Excerpts from Fr Butler's Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints")

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