Funeral; lives marked by birth date, death date and dash between them
Think of the legacy that you leave after you die.
Think of the legacy established for you, before you were born.
Ancestors, family
Communion of Saints
to inspire us
to pray for us . . . . eg. St. Hubert, patron of hunters
For what purpose are they praying for us?
Maybe to help us face our challenges
Most important . . . for us to grow into our own magnificence
To Become a Saint by Fr. Thomas Merton:
There can be no doubt, no compromise,
in my decision to be completely faithful to God’s will and truth,
and hence I must seek always and in everything
to act for His will and in His truth,
and thus to seek with His grace to be “a saint.”
There must be no doubt,
no compromise in my efforts to avoid falsifying this work of truth by considering too much what others approve of and regard as “holy.”
In a word, it may happen (or may not) that what God demands of me
may make me look less perfect to others,
and that it may rob me of their support, their affection, their respect.
To become a saint therefore may mean the anguish of looking like,
and in a real sense “being,” a sinner, an outcast.
It may mean apparent conflict with certain standards
that may be wrongly understood by me or by others or by all of us.
The thing is to cling to God’s will and truth in their purity
and try to be sincere and to act in all things out of genuine love,
in so far as I can.