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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 17d

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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 3h

“The goal of our life is not to live on in the memories of others, but rather it is to live on in God’s loving presence with all the saints forever in heaven” -Fr Robert Verrill

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“The Beatitudes are the standards of Christian perfection. And Christian perfection is living life from God’s point of view—the view of heaven. The life of a saint.” -Mary Ortwein

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“God’s holiness, Jesus’ holiness, is so rich that even a single great saint, the greatest saint, isn’t enough to express all of it” -Fr Simon Gaine

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“Think about the saint you know. Let us not be so much carried away by imaginary names unknown to us.Think about the people who have impacted positively on your life and who irrespective of human weaknesses tried their best to identify with Christ while on earth.” -Fr. Lawrence Obilor

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 3h

“The only way that we are rendered unredeemable is when, through our free will, we decide to reject the unwavering and magnanimous mercy and compassion of God” -Fr. Daniel Kim, MM

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 3h

“To hope for the blessedness of heaven is not some psychological crutch for those too weak to look reality in the face, but an act of defiant hope in the face of the darkness of injustice in this world” -John Bergsma

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“The friendship of the saints in heaven is a purer friendship than our human friendship because it is not based on any need they have, except what we might call the need to allow their joy and love to overflow into this world.” -Fr Euan Marley

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 4h

“When we see God face-to-face, will we be surprised if we recognize our own friends and family in God’s face? We are made in the image and likeness of God, and as we grow in love, we become more like God.” -Sr. Nancy Connor, MM

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 4h

“Our ultimate goal is to become saints ourselves, and a great way to do that is to follow the footsteps of those who have gone before.” -Steven Marsh

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 12h

“Because if we know some people are with God, which we do, then we also know it is possible to be with God” -Fr Dominic Ryan

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 12h

“Today we are not so much celebrating what human beings have achieved as celebrating the fruit of divine providence and the inevitable triumph of God’s love for humanity” -Fr. John Patrick on the Solemnity of All Saints

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“Ordinary saints are the grout that holds our fragile world together. They fill in the cracks in our broken lives. They hold together the bricks that make up society.” -Fr. Dave Schwinghamer, MM

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 12h

“Holiness is being fully alive, as God created each thing uniquely to be. There are as many ways of being a saint as there are human beings.” -Fr Timothy Radcliffe

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“How fitting to reflect on how it is the...ordinary decisions, thoughts and actions that make saints who they are. If they had not proven themselves during the ordinary tasks of living...they most likely would not have been able to be faithful in times of great distress or trial.” -Rhegan Hyypio

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 12h

“Today’s feast is about celebrating the open invitation by the God-of-Communion to all of creation and all peoples of every nation, and language as participants in God’s Trinitarian process that promises fullness of life for all” -Sr. Ann Hayden, MM on the Solemnity of All Saints

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 12h

“This is what it means to be holy, in the fullest meaning of some very simple words: a saint is someone who, held in God’s loving gaze, comes to see God” -Fr Vivian Boland

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 12h

“We do not call people saints just because they are loving or wise, but because their love and wisdom is rooted in and the expression of the love and wisdom, the holiness of God” -Fr Martin Ganeri

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 12h

“We believe that Jesus Christ does make it possible that human beings can be better than we are and we believe that there are human beings, the saints, who demonstrate exactly what Christ has done” -Fr Dominic Ryan

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 12h

“Holiness is to do with the extent to which a person has been open to the transforming life of God, and is therefore included in the community of salvation which we call the Body of Christ” -Fr Fabian Radcliffe

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 13h

“The whole point of today’s celebration is not just an excuse for backward-looking nostalgia...It is a very real participation in the communion of saints, who are in a living and loving relationship with us in the very life of the Trinity.” -Fr Aelred Connelly on the Solemnity of All Saints

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 13h

“Trust me, when you hunger and thirst for righteousness, when you want one thing, your clean of heart, when your whole life is about hesed or tender mercy, you will produce peace around you” -Bishop Robert Barron

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 13h

“What if you try this now, for an entire day, the only relevant question was: What's the righteous thing to do? What would conform me more and more to the love that God is?” -Bishop Robert Barron

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 13h

“the saints are God's masterpieces and he never tires of painting them in different colors according to different styles and different compositions” -Bishop Robert Barron

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 1d

"We have to participate in the love of God that keeps coming" -Fr. John Paul Forté, OP

GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 1d

"God is right here, do we hear him? Or are we allowing the cacophony of this world, this day in age to just shut out all of what God is longing to say?" -Fr. Oscar Pratt