All Saints' Day Memories from Years Past

(Innocent little ones, dressed as saints, tell their pastor what they know about their saint at an 

All Saints' Day Party)

Won't it be wonderful to socialize with the saints in Heaven? The saints we've read about, and loved, and asked to intercede for us? I particularly can't wait to meet Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane de Chantal! And St. Philomena, and St. Therese, and St. Joan of Arc!

And won't it be wonderful to spend time with those we loved in this life! I most of all want to see my sister who went to Heaven in 1989. God is the One we most want to see, but all our other loved ones will make our eternity in Paradise all the sweeter.

"Human nature will remain in Heaven. We shall love our kinsfolk and friends with a particular love. We shall know them from others. As Our Lord, after His Resurrection, had, in His impassible flesh, the same dear Face so often gazed on by His disciples with adoring love; so each one of us will be recognizable above by those who have known us on earth. Our Lord's voice had the same tone and accent, His step the same footfall; and so with all who shall rise after His model. We shall know and rejoice in the company of each other. These lesser joys in Heaven will mingle with the greater, and will not disturb the harmonic tone; for joy in God will be the grand chord with which all the rest will blend in sweetest concert."

~ Rev. Father Collins, Heaven Opened; or, Our Home in Heaven, and the Way Thither, imprimatur 1880.