One Minute Reflection – 1 November – The Solemnity of All Saints, Readings: Ps 32:1, Apoc 7:2-12, Matt 5:1-12
Blessed are you when men reproach you, and persecute you, and, speaking falsely, say all manner of evil against you, for My sake. Rejoice and exult, because your reward is great in heaven.
Matt 5:1-12
REFLECTION – There is nothing so beautiful as a soul that is pure. If we understood this, we would be incapable of losing our purity. A pure soul is like a beautiful pearl. So long as it is concealed in a shell at the bottom of the sea no one thinks of admiring it. But if you display it in the sun then this pearl shines and draws people’s eyes. Purity comes from heaven: we have to ask God for it. If we ask for it we shall get it. We must take great care not to lose it. It closes our hearts to pride, sensuality and every other passion.
Children, we cannot understand the power that a pure soul has over the Good God: it gets all it wants. Before God a pure soul is like a child before its mother: it caresses her and hugs her and its mother returns its caresses and embraces.
To preserve our purity there are three things: the Presence of God, prayer and the sacraments.
St John Vianney
PRAYER – Father, All-Powerful and ever-living God, today we rejoice in the holy men and women of every time and place. May their prayers bring us your forgiveness and love. Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, our trusted guide and loving mother and all you holy Saints of the Church Triumphant, pray for us! We make our prayer through Christ our Lord, in union with the Holy Spirit, God forever, amen.
