Thought for the Day on KIPI (All Saints)

This is Fr. Kurt of CREM, and let me leave you with this thought for the day.

Today the Church celebrates All Saints Day.

As Bishop Steven Charleston, an elder in the Chocktaw nation puts it…

Can you hear them as they pass by? Can you feel them standing just beside you? They are the ones who have gone before, saints who have touched our lives. They are the family to which we belong, ancient and never ending. Our ancestors watch over us, their constant vigil keeping. Their wisdom surrounds us. Their healing a river through channels of time. Can you hear them? They speak of a love they have seen, love beyond imagining, love that holds us safe, until we rise to meet them.

On this day we are called to join the saints in the holy work done here on Earth. One such saint for me is Oscar Romero…

In a radio address on November 20, 1977, then Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador gives us wise words to live by…

How beautiful will be the day when all the baptized understand that their work, their job, is a priestly work; that just as I celebrate [Mass] at this altar, so each carpenter celebrates [Mass] at his workbench, and each metalworker, each professional, each doctor with a scalpel, the market woman at her stand, is performing a priestly office!

How many cabdrivers, I know, listen to this message there in their cabs; you are a priest at the wheel, my friend, if you work with honesty, consecrating that taxi of yours to God, bearing a message of peace and love to the passengers who ride in your cab.

I love those words. Today on All Saints we are called to live the like the saints of old, whose lives still speak to us of the love of the creator. May we with honesty, bear a message of peace and love, as we dedicate our lives to the one who created us all.

Have a blessed day.