All saints

Today’s feast day is a time to celebrate the Communion of Saints, which we say we believe in when we pray the Apostles’ Creed. The Communion of Saints is made up of three groups of people: all the people who have made it to Heaven; all the people that are waiting to get into Heaven but are still in purgatory (where your soul is made pure before entering Heaven); and all the people that belong to the Church here on earth and are living their life the way Jesus asked us to. So this means that all of us are on a journey to sainthood. The saints that have made it into Heaven already are praying for us, to help us live our lives the way Jesus asks so that we can join them in Heaven. We pray for those saints who are waiting to get into Heaven and we ask the Saints already in Heaven to pray for us. All together we make up the wonderful Communion of Saints that belong to God’s family. Just like the stories of the Saints of the Day that are written here, we will have our own story of how we made it into Heaven.