Who is your
favourite super hero? What’s their super power? What super power would you like
to have? It might be invisibility; being able to fly; shooting webs when you
need to (like Spider Man!). Today we celebrate All Saints Day and, in a way, we
think of the Saints as the superheroes of the church. They seem to be the ones
who discovered the real. We look up to them for guidance and for prayerful help;
they are like guides holding a torch for us to show us the way. We are all
called to be Saints, called to be ‘holy’ like them. It often seems impossible
however. We might have a favourite saint who we pray to and who we feel
intercedes for us when we need it the most. So today is a very special feast as
we remember those very special people who have shown us how to be better
followers of Christ.
Today is also about
celebrating those saints who are with us on our life journeys, those saints we
know personally and love. Saints have to work against the grain and be counter
cultural. Saints are all around us, pointing the way for us, teaching us
something about God through their lives. They are quietly
working in our communities, our families and some are well known public figures,
shining examples of the love of God in our world. We might pray today
especially for those who are living saints in our own lives and for the grace
to be more like those ‘superhero’ saints who point us towards Christ through
their lives.
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