Look Back, Look Forward...But...continued
Last time we looked back to All Saints Day and All Soul's Day. If we did this thoughtfully, we're grounded in our interior lives to keep these two parts of the Body of Christ present to us, even as we work today: All Saints - the Church Triumphant; All Souls - the Church Suffering. These incorporate those who have died. So now we turn to the Church Militant - we who remain here in our lives on earth. In communion with our brothers and sisters who have passed into eternal life, we can look forward. I have always found All Saints and All Souls to be a kind of line of demarcation that turns my attention to the coming of Thanksgiving and Christmas - the "holiday season." Yes, I realize the secular world focuses on Halloween. But surely we know that the real significance of Halloween is that it is the Vigil of All Saints Day. Right? So with that we look forward to Christmas now, and here in the United States the preceding celebration of Thanksgiving. Drilling down furth...