Fully alive!

[All Saints, Year A, Saturday Nov 1, 2014. Rev 7:2-4, 9-14/Ps 24: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6/1 Jn 3:1-3/ Matt 5, 1-12a]

I WAS ordained on November 1, 2008 in London. When people ask me why that date I always tell them usually a priest chooses a date with a special significance – perhaps a feast day of a Saint they particularly love, would like to emulate or have praying for them in a special way. Some priests need one saint but I need them all! I remember lying face down on the ground, prostrate on the floor listening to the litany of the Saints being sung. All my favorite saints were there! St John Chrysostom, pray for us. St Thérèse of the Child Jesus, pray for us. And so many other men and women who we have as guides and models, powerful intercessors supporting us along the way. They are present, alive, interceding for us, raising us up from the ground when we fall and offering a helping hand.