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The following comes from Praying Each Day...
1 Today’s feastday of ‘All
Saints’ isn’t about those
who are publicly named as saints
- each of those has their own
feastday. Instead, on the Feast of ‘All Saints’ we
think of many ordinary good
people who walked with God in their daily lives, and
who are now dead. Today is their feastday
- the unmentioned saints - who
now live in God’s presence.
2 In the early Church, “saint”
was a name for a person whom today we would call
a “committed Christian”. In the
Bible - after the four gospels - we can find the
word “saint” over 60 times.
Each reference concerns living
people
who seek
to follow Jesus. For example,
Paul writes to some Christians:
3 “If any of the saints are in need, you
must share with them.” Rom 1213
4 “To all of you in Rome whom God
loves greatly, all of you called to be saints:
may
God our Father… send you peace.” Rom 17
5 This feastday of ‘All Saints’
also reminds us of our own potential, of what (hopefully)
we are in the process of
becoming. A Christian living 150 years after Jesus, wrote: “The glory of Godis a person living
fully.”
6 Paul writes to a group of
“saints” – committed Christians - in the Greek city of
Ephesus. He starts off that
letter with the words: “To
the saints who are faithful to Christ…” Eph 11
7 We’ll make our prayer today
from other words in that same letter.
8 Let us pray:
When
I think of the greatness
of
God’s plan,
I
fall on my knees
before
God the Father.
From
his great wealth
may
he give us power through his Spirit
that
we may grow strong within.
Through
faith, may we discover that Christ has made his home
within
each of us.
9 Then, with our roots and foundations
firmly
built on God’s love,
may
we, with all of his saints,
grasp
just how wide and long
and
high and deep
is
Christ’s love.
Yes,
may we come to experience
for
ourselves
the
love of Christ
so
that we may be filled completely
with
God himself.
10 This prayer we ask of God
who
can accomplish far more
than
we could ever ask for or imagine.
Amen.
(based
on Eph 3114-21)
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