The month of November starts with the solemnity of All Saints. As both the Bible as well as the Second Vatican Council tell us, we were created to be saints. Our call to holiness stems from the essential fact that we were created by God who is the...
If we were asked to come up with a list of those who, according to our assessment, make it to heaven, i.e. a list of the Saints, whom would we include and whom would we leave out? Chances are that our list would be short. It would be limited to...
The phrase “the Communion of Saints” is very familiar to Catholics, especially older ones, because it is in the Apostles’ Creed that they were taught in childhood. The term is based on the belief that a union exists between the deceased who loved...
In his book, A Short Introduction to the Apostle’s Creed, author Bruno Forte wrote that “the Church is the communion of saints. In the first place, it means having part in the Holy One, the sanctifying Spirit. In the second place, since...
