Orate Pro Nobis

Happy All Saints Day! 

November 1 has always been my very favorite day of the entire year for a variety of reasons, with the honoring of all the Saints known and unknown playing an increasingly important part in that favor as I’ve matured spiritually over the years. 

I may or may not be able to slip off to Mass later.  (As good Catholics – and even I – know, All Saints is a Day of Obligation, but since it falls on a Saturday this year, that obligation in effect rolls over to tomorrow.)  Regardless of whether I do or not, my thoughts today are filled with the Litany of the Saints.

I have found that recognition of and appeal to the Saints (up to and including the Virgin) has been the hardest part of coming to Holy Mother Church.  It isn’t that I have a problem accepting the theology, because I don’t.  Instead, it is just a matter of not being used to it, having grown up a Low Church Episcopalian, and I find that I have to make a particular conscious effort to do so.  I expect that as with most things, this will get easier and more natural with time and usage.