Carmelite homily for Lectionary 667 – Solemnity of All Saints, Friday, November 1, 2019
In today’s Gospel we have the Beatitudes on this Feast, this Solemnity of All Saints. Sister Constance is a nun at Baltimore Carmel and she’s written a set of Carmelite Beatitudes. They’re available online. I’m not going to read them all, but just a few and you’ll get that feel for carmelite-ness in her Beatitudes.
- Blessed are they who journey through darkness, for they shall find light and great joy.
- Blessed are they who hold the sorrows of this world in their prayer, for they shall see humanity’s glorious transformation.
- Blessed are they love the trials of the spiritual journey, for they shall be purified.
- Blessed are they who are silent and find a place for ‘other,’ for they will learn to see all things in God.
Her list continues. The Beatitudes are paths to sanctity; whether they are Jesus’ in Matthew’s Gospel or Sister Constance’s, available to you online. The call is to be saints ourselves and we do this by being “Blesseds” in the world today.