All Saints – Solemnity
Readings: Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14; 1 John 3:1-3
The Solemnity of All Saints invites us to contemplate not an unreachable perfection, but the radiant beauty of lives wholly transformed by the mercy of God. The saints are those who, through grace, have washed their garments clean, not by their own merit, but by immersing their lives in divine love. They are not distant heroes but men and women who allowed mercy to become the substance of their existence. The Book of Revelation shows them standing before the Lamb, clothed in white, their lives purified by the fire of God’s compassion. Saint John tells us that our destiny is to “see God as He is,” a vision that begins already in this life when we let His light shape our hearts. To be a saint is to live transparently before God, to see and be seen in the truth of love. Holiness, then, is not an achievement but a transformation: to be so immersed in mercy that our lives reflect the very face of God. Let’s reflect: Am I allowing the mercy of God to wash and transform my life so deeply that, even now, I begin to see and reflect God as He truly is?
Don Giorgio