Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

    The justice of God is always based on the love of God and of our neighbor.  We know as best we can Who God is by way of His revelation to us, One yet Three.  And He, of course, is a perpetual cycle of love: Father for Son and Holy Spirit, Spirit for Father and Son, Son for Father and Spirit, an endless movement of each for the other.  We can only glimpse the mystery of God’s nature and essence but we are called in our own limited humanness to imitate He Who made us.  We act upon that imitation of God by our relationship to one another.  First we recognize that we are all relatives.   It is  very hard to imagine when we see the horrific strife and inhumanity in the world today. But it is true and genetically the warring factions in the Middle East are descendants of Abraham! The consequence of Original Sin that cascaded from Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel and beyond sadly continues to this day in spite of the fact that the Father has sent His Son to reverse and end the schism between brother and brother.  When will it end?

   It will only end when all cry out: Jesus is Lord! He is the Way, He is the Truth, He is the One Who shows us the promise of a better, happier and fulfilling life on earth in preparation for the fullness yet to come.  And yet, by so many, ignored. Only when people stop thinking of themselves first will there be a restoration of the order ordained by God.  Is God first? Are our neighbors second, are we the last?  If not disaster in one form or another is sure to fall upon us.  It’s a simple easy formula; 1,2,3, and it will bring the peace and justice for which we long.

      Remember that  Wednesday, November 1st is All Saints Day, a Holy Day of Obligation for which we are bound to participate in Holy Mass.  It is sinful not to participate in Mass that day.  The following day is All Souls, not a Holy Day, but rather a devotional day wherein we earnestly pray for our neighbors who are in purification before entrance into the Kingdom of God.  They are in need of our prayers and sacrifices for they are unable in this state of life to accomplish anything for themselves.  It is a great act of charity on our part to pray for them, most especially by the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the Rosary, that their purification may be accomplished and their entrance into sainthood be complete.

With Blessings,