Why We Need Great Saints
By JAMES MONTI It is in late autumn, as the days grow shorter and colder and the liturgical year draws near to its close, and the month of remembering the faithful departed begins, that Holy Mother Church bids us to raise our eyes from the surrounding darkness to behold the blazing light of the Heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the saints. The Solemnity of All Saints’ Day on November 1 opens Heaven, as it were, to give us an inviting glimpse of the everlasting joy of those who while on Earth heard the Word of God and kept it with a generous heart. The churches of the Baroque Era from the 1600s and 1700s express this particularly well, with their…Continue Reading