{"id":10191,"date":"2015-11-01T16:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=10191"},"modified":"2015-11-01T16:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T21:59:39","slug":"sanctification-through-consecration-all-saints-day-november-1-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/sanctification-through-consecration-all-saints-day-november-1-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctification through Consecration, All Saints Day, November 1, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nAll Saints Day 2015<br \/>\nNovember 1, 2015<br \/>\nRev 7:2-4.9-14, Ps 24, 1 Jn 3:1-3, Mt 5:1-12<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10191-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11.1.15-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11.1.15-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11.1.15-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Point of Human Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s feast is about the whole point of human life. We\u2019re made for heaven, to spend eternity with God in His kingdom of love. Jesus came down from heaven to show us the way to heaven where he awaits us. Today we celebrate those people who followed Jesus all the way there, the great and famous saints we know about, and the countless quiet saints, probably many of those who passed on to us the faith, who died in the love of the Lord and now live in His love. These are the multitude who have \u201cwashed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb,\u201d as we heard in today\u2019s first reading, and who brought those white baptismal garments \u201cunstained into the everlasting life of heaven,\u201d like they were instructed to do on the day of their baptism. These are the \u201cgreat multitude that no one could count, from every nation,\u201d who have not just been <em>called<\/em> \u201cchildren of God\u201d through baptism, as St. John told us in today\u2019s second reading, but <em>have lived<\/em> as children of God throughout their lives, \u201cmaking themselves pure as [God] is pure,\u201d holy as he is holy, perfect as he is perfect. These are the ones who as we prayed in the Psalm have longed to see God\u2019s face, whose hands were sinless, whose heart was pure, whose desires were not for vain things but for the things of God. These are the ones who have ascended \u201cthe mountain of the Lord,\u201d the eternal Jerusalem, and who \u201cstand in his holy place.\u201d These are the ones who are singing today in that holy place the beautiful endless song glimpsed in the passage from Revelation, \u201cSalvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalvation belongs to our God.\u201d The first thing we celebrate today is God\u2019s free gift of salvation. Holiness and Heaven are always and exclusively a gift of God beyond anything we can merit. 24 years ago today, in a homily to the first Sisters of Life, Cardinal O\u2019Connor stressed that we cannot make ourselves holy. He compared the process of our sanctification to what he had observed happen to the Sistine Chapel, when the centuries of corrosion, grime, candle soot and leaks that had deteriorated Michelangelo\u2019s frescoes had finally been cleansed to reveal a tremendous colorful, dazzling, luminous freshness. A similar process has to happen in us, he proclaimed, and it happens through his mercy: \u201cAll the power of the Christ who was ripped to shreds on the Cross just pours into our souls, washes them, scrapes them, cleans them, purifies them and does what to us? Makes us saints. That\u2019s what holiness is. That\u2019s what being a saint is. Having the power of Christ just pervade our very beings, wash our very bones, scrub our souls clean to the point of dazzling whiteness.\u201d He went on to add, \u201cHoliness does not consist of never having sinned. Holiness consists in letting Christ redeem us. \u2026 We can\u2019t make ourselves holy. All that we can do is to open ourselves up to Christ to let Him scrub us clean, to let Him make us bright, shining.\u201d We prayed significantly in today\u2019s opening Collect, \u201cAlmighty ever-living God, by whose gift we venerate in one celebration the merits of all the Saints, bestow on us, we pray, through the prayers of so many intercessors, <em>an abundance of the reconciliation with you for which we earnestly long.\u201d <\/em>And the Lord longs for that total reconciliation with us more than all of us alive today for it with him!<\/p>\n<p>But as much as Heaven and holiness are God\u2019s gift that we cannot earn, God out of love has made them the result of our choice, the result of our acting on that longing. To get to heaven, as St. Thomas Aquinas said, we need to will it, we need to desire it, we need to choose it. All who get to heaven choose it and all our choices here are earth are forks leading toward or away from God, in which we set our feet on or away from the path to heaven, to God, to eternity. It is a choice between true, lasting happiness and momentary pleasure; a choice between light and darkness; a choice between good and evil; a choice ultimately between life and death. Jesus came down to show us the way to choose well, and to help us to choose well, but there are competing voices that attempt to seduce us to choose against what God wants. The saints are those who have chosen well. They are the multitude of men and women, just like us, from every nation and language, who have responded to God\u2019s grace and chosen him who already had chosen them. They are the ones whose example the Church puts before us today and who are interceding for us that we might choose as they did.<\/p>\n<p><b>Following Jesus on the Path of Holiness<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus gathers us around him and presents to us anew the way to heaven, the way to happiness, the way to holiness. The path that he shows us stands in stark contrast to the path that the majority of people in the world believe will make us happy. Jesus\u2019 words present us with the choice on which our lives now and forever hinge. Let\u2019s listen to him as if we\u2019re hearing him for the first time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The world tells us that to be happy, we have to be rich. Jesus says, rather, \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit, for they will inherit the kingdom of heaven.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The world tells us we\u2019re happy when we don\u2019t have a concern in the world. Jesus says, on the other hand, \u201cBlessed are those\u201d who are so concerned with others that \u201cthey mourn\u201d over their own and others\u2019 miseries, \u201cfor they will be comforted\u201d by him eternally.<\/li>\n<li>Worldly know-it-alls say, \u201cYou have to be strong and powerful to be happy.\u201d Jesus, in contrast, retorts, \u201cBlessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The spiritually worldly shout increasingly more each day, \u201cTo be happy, you\u2019ve got to have all your sexual fantasies fulfilled\u201d and our culture promotes people like Hugh Hefner and promiscuous Hollywood vixens as those who have it made. Jesus, however, says \u201cBlessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The world preaches, \u201cYou\u2019re happy when you accept yourself,\u201d and espouses an \u201cI\u2019m okay, you\u2019re okay,\u201d brand of moral relativism. Jesus says, though, \u201cBlessed are those who <em>hunger<\/em> and <em>thirst<\/em> for holiness, for his grace and justification, for they will be filled.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The world says, \u201cYou\u2019re happy when you don\u2019t start a fight, but finish it\u201d and people from professional wrestlers, to boxers, to generals, to armchair or back-seat presidents shout \u201cNo mercy,\u201d and \u201cMake them never stop regretting getting on our bad side,\u201d Jesus says \u201cBlessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy\u201d and \u201cBlessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Our American culture increasingly says, \u201cYou\u2019re happy when everyone considers you nice, when you don\u2019t have an enemy in the world\u201d Jesus says, \u201cBlessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness\u2019 sake\u201d and \u201cblessed are you when people revile you, persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account,\u201d \u201cfor their reward will be the kingdom of heaven.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Blessed are you!&#8221;, the Lord Jesus summarizes, \u201cyou who are poor in spirit, gentle and merciful, you who mourn, who care for what is right, who are pure in heart, who make peace, you who are persecuted! Blessed are you!\u201d Jesus exalts those whom the world generally regards as weak. He basically says to us, \u201cBlessed are you who seem to be <em>losers<\/em>, because you are the <em>real winners<\/em>, who seem to be throwing away your lives compared to those who are obtaining fame, and property and power: Blessed are you, Jesus says, because the kingdom of heaven is <em>yours<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019 words about the path to heaven present a constant challenge that demands a deep and abiding conversion of spirit, because so many, including so many of us Catholics, so many priests, so many consecrated men and women don\u2019t really strive to live this way, don\u2019t really stake our lives on what Jesus says, don\u2019t really make the choices that will lead us to eternal blessedness. All Saints Day is an occasion for us to recognize the two voices competing for our hearts, the voice of the many blind guides calling us to follow them down various earthly dead ends and the voice of the Good Shepherd whispering to us to take his hand and he leads us through the dark valleys to the eternal verdant pastures where he seeks to rejoice with us forever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consecrated Men and Women: Icons of the\u00a0Beatitudes, the Choice\u00a0for Holiness, in the World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consecrated men and women are particularly important in helping the whole world to learn how to follow Christ along the path of the Beatitudes to eternal beatitude. During this Year of Consecrated Life, it\u2019s key for those who are consecrated as well as for the entire Church to ponder this connection between the consecrated life and the beatitudes, between the consecrated life and holiness.<\/p>\n<p>In St. John Paul II\u2019s great apostolic exhortation <em>Vita Consecrata<\/em>, he wrote, \u201cA particular duty of the consecrated life is to remind the baptized of the fundamental values of the Gospel, by bearing \u2018splendid and striking testimony that the world cannot be transfigured and offered to God without the spirit of the Beatitudes.\u2019 The consecrated life, by its very existence in the Church, seeks to serve the consecration of the lives of all the faithful, clergy and laity alike.\u201d The consecrated, St. John Paul II added, \u201cnot only make Christ the whole meaning of their lives, but strive to reproduce in themselves, as far as possible, \u2018that form of life which he, as the Son of God, accepted in entering this world.\u201d Christ as we know not only proclaimed the Beatitudes but lived them. In a special way, consecrated men and women are supposed to reproduce Christ\u2019s blessed life. Consecrated men and women are summoned and strengthened by him to manifest the paradoxical and surpassing happiness that comes through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spiritual poverty for the sake of the pearl of great price of the kingdom of heaven;<\/li>\n<li>Evangelical chastity and purity of heart that allows them to see God in others and reverence him;<\/li>\n<li>Holy obedience through the strength of meekness;<\/li>\n<li>The power of Christ\u2019s reconciliation through becoming icons of his mercy, through following the Prince of Peace in becoming peacemakers themselves and mourning over the lack of peace in souls, in families, in communities, in the Church, in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The longing to see God\u2019s face, the longing for the kingdom of heaven, through hungering and thirsting for holiness and through recognizing that it\u2019s worth it to suffer everything, including persecution and martyrdom, out of love for him who has suffered everything for us, and who has shown that no suffering at all can separate us from his love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Consecrated Life is all geared toward this beatitude. It\u2019s meant to open us up to the power of Christ and his holiness radiating through a man or a woman who says fiat to Christ in all of these ways, not just once but continuously. Pope Benedict noted that when Jesus prayed to God the Father during the Last Supper, saying, \u201cConsecrate them in the truth. \u2026 I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth,\u201d that the word for \u201cconsecration\u201d can also be fittingly translated \u201csanctification\u201d and \u201csacrifice.\u201d Jesus <em>sanctifies<\/em> himself so that we may be sanctified in truth, the truth of his Word, the truth of the real, real world that will last forever. Jesus <em>sacrifices<\/em> himself so that we might become part of that sacrifice of love, that perfection of charity (<em>perfectae caritatis<\/em>) that is holiness. And Jesus during the first Mass, into which we enter every Mass, is praying to the Father precisely for our sanctity, so that this day, November 1, may forever be our feast with him and all his holy ones.<\/p>\n<p>To enter into Jesus\u2019 consecration is a call of all the baptized. It is especially important, however, that those who through the evangelical counsels have entered conspicuously into Jesus\u2019 consecration make visible in the world their union of love with the poor, chaste, and obedient Bridegroom who came so that we might have life to the full, the Good Shepherd who gav his life to promote and defend our lives. St. John Paul II wrote in <em>Vita Consecrata, <\/em>\u201cAll are equally called to follow Christ, to discover in him the ultimate meaning of their lives, until they are able to say with the Apostle: \u2018For to me to live is Christ\u2019 (Phil 1:21). But those who are called to the consecrated life have a special experience of the light that shines forth from the Incarnate Word. For the profession of the evangelical counsels makes them a kind of sign and prophetic statement for the community of the brethren and for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eschatological Signs that Respond to Today&#8217;s Greatest Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And consecrated men and women do this in a special way by showing all of us a longing for Christ\u2019s kingdom, to try to leaven earthly life with the values of the kingdom and even more importantly to become signposts pointing toward God, toward heaven, toward eternity.<\/p>\n<p>St. John Paul II said in <em>Vita Consecrata<\/em>, \u201cIt is the duty of the consecrated life to show that the Incarnate Son of God is the eschatological goal towards which all things tend, the splendor before which every other light pales, and the infinite beauty that alone can fully satisfy the human heart. In the consecrated life, then, it is not only a matter of following Christ with one&#8217;s whole heart, of loving him &#8220;more than father or mother, more than son or daughter&#8221; (cf. Mt 10:37) \u2014 for this is required of every disciple \u2014 but of living and expressing this by conforming one&#8217;s whole existence to Christ in an all-encompassing commitment that foreshadows the eschatological perfection, to the extent that this is possible in time and in accordance with the different charisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so today as we celebrate all the saints who have come before us, we need to recognize that they\u2019re all encouraging us, in unison, to allow Christ through his consecration to make us the saints of our era just as much as they allowed him to make them the saints of their own. Every crisis that the world and the Church face, St. Josemaria once said, is a \u201ccrisis of saints,\u201d and the problems that the Church now faces requires that you and I eventually trade our prefixes of \u201csister\u201d or \u201cfather\u201d for the only one that in the final analysis really matters, \u201csaint.\u201d St. John of the Cross once told young Carmelite novices in his \u201cDegrees of Perfection,\u201d \u201cRemember always that you came here for no other reason that to be a saint; thus let nothing reign in your soul that does not lead you to sanctity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This call to continual conversion and holiness, St. John Paul II wrote, \u201cin the first place challenges the consecrated life. In fact the vocation of consecrated persons to seek first the Kingdom of God is first and foremost a call to complete conversion, in self-renunciation, in order to live fully for the Lord, so that God may be all in all.\u201d And he stressed how urgent and important it is for consecrated men and women to die to themselves in this way so that the Risen Christ may live within them. \u201cToday we have a tremendous need of saints,\u201d St. John Paul II said, \u201cfor whom we must assiduously implore God. The Institutes of Consecrated Life, through the profession of the evangelical counsels, must be conscious of their special mission in today&#8217;s Church, and we must encourage them in that mission.\u201d He went on to say that this is the only reason why various Institutes of Consecrated Life exist, to make saints and to form those who can help lead others to sanctity: \u201cThe Church has always seen in the profession of the evangelical counsels a special path to holiness. The very expressions used to describe it \u2014 the school of the Lord&#8217;s service, the school of love and holiness, the way or state of perfection \u2014 indicate the effectiveness and the wealth of means that are proper to this form of evangelical life, and the particular commitment made by those who embrace it. It is not by chance that there have been so many consecrated persons down the centuries who have left behind eloquent testimonies of holiness and have undertaken particularly generous and demanding works of evangelization and service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Payoff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll never forget one of the most powerful, indeed shocking lines I ever heard. It was in the early 90s, while I was working in Washington, DC, and generally spending most of Sunday praying at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. One afternoon I went to the crypt where Cardinal Hickey was celebrating the final profession of several Missionaries of Charity. At one part of the ceremony, according to the approved rite, he told them that if they keep the rule and live by the vows they had professed, \u201cI promise you <em>heaven<\/em>.\u201d That\u2019s what the Church essentially says to those in every institute when it approves a rule, that it is a path to sanctification and to the sanctification of others, and if a person keeps it not just on the outside but on the inside, heaven, by God\u2019s mercy, is guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>And so today as we come to enter into Jesus\u2019 consecration for our consecration, his sanctification for our holiness, his sacrifice for our life-long holocaust of charity, we ask him through the intercession of all the saints, to give us all the grace he knows we need so that we may become men and women who are living signs of true Beatitude and so that the work of sanctification he has begun in us might be brought to the fulfillment on the day of Christ Jesus! The Holy Spirit through St. Paul told us, \u201cThis is God\u2019s will: your sanctification\u201d (1 Thess 4:3). On this unique All Saints Day taking place within the Year of Consecrated Life, we respond to God with confident prayer and filial cooperation saying \u201cThy will be done!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/revelation\/7:2\">RV 7:2-4, 9-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">I, John, saw another angel come up from the East,<br \/>\nholding the seal of the living God.<br \/>\nHe cried out in a loud voice to the four angels<br \/>\nwho were given power to damage the land and the sea,<br \/>\n\u201cDo not damage the land or the sea or the trees<br \/>\nuntil we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.\u201d<br \/>\nI heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal,<br \/>\none hundred and forty-four thousand marked<br \/>\nfrom every tribe of the children of Israel.After this I had a vision of a great multitude,<br \/>\nwhich no one could count,<br \/>\nfrom every nation, race, people, and tongue.<br \/>\nThey stood before the throne and before the Lamb,<br \/>\nwearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.<br \/>\nThey cried out in a loud voice:\u201cSalvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne,<br \/>\nand from the Lamb.\u201dAll the angels stood around the throne<br \/>\nand around the elders and the four living creatures.<br \/>\nThey prostrated themselves before the throne,<br \/>\nworshiped God, and exclaimed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving,<br \/>\nhonor, power, and might<br \/>\nbe to our God forever and ever. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me,<br \/>\n\u201cWho are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?\u201d<br \/>\nI said to him, \u201cMy lord, you are the one who knows.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to me,<br \/>\n\u201cThese are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;<br \/>\nthey have washed their robes<br \/>\nand made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/24:1\">PS 24:1BC-2, 3-4AB, 5-6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see 6)\u00a0Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.<br \/>\nThe LORD\u2019s are the earth and its fullness;<br \/>\nthe world and those who dwell in it.<br \/>\nFor he founded it upon the seas<br \/>\nand established it upon the rivers.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.<br \/>\nWho can ascend the mountain of the LORD?<br \/>\nor who may stand in his holy place?<br \/>\nOne whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,<br \/>\nwho desires not what is vain.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.<br \/>\nHe shall receive a blessing from the LORD,<br \/>\na reward from God his savior.<br \/>\nSuch is the race that seeks him,<br \/>\nthat seeks the face of the God of Jacob.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1john\/3:1\">1 JN 3:1-3<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Beloved:<br \/>\nSee what love the Father has bestowed on us<br \/>\nthat we may be called the children of God.<br \/>\nYet so we are.<br \/>\nThe reason the world does not know us<br \/>\nis that it did not know him.<br \/>\nBeloved, we are God\u2019s children now;<br \/>\nwhat we shall be has not yet been revealed.<br \/>\nWe do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,<br \/>\nfor we shall see him as he is.<br \/>\nEveryone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure,<br \/>\nas he is pure.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/11:28\">MT 11:28<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nCome to me, all you who labor and are burdened,<br \/>\nand I will give you rest, says the Lord.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/5:1\">MT 5:1-12A<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain,<br \/>\nand after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.<br \/>\nHe began to teach them, saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit,<br \/>\nfor theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.<br \/>\nBlessed are they who mourn,<br \/>\nfor they will be comforted.<br \/>\nBlessed are the meek,<br \/>\nfor they will inherit the land.<br \/>\nBlessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,<br \/>\nfor they will be satisfied.<br \/>\nBlessed are the merciful,<br \/>\nfor they will be shown mercy.<br \/>\nBlessed are the clean of heart,<br \/>\nfor they will see God.<br \/>\nBlessed are the peacemakers,<br \/>\nfor they will be called children of God.<br \/>\nBlessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,<br \/>\nfor theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.<br \/>\nBlessed are you when they insult you and persecute you<br \/>\nand utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me.<br \/>\nRejoice and be glad,<br \/>\nfor your reward will be great in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/evia-all-saints.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10197\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/evia-all-saints.jpg?resize=300%2C196&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"evia-all-saints\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/evia-all-saints.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/evia-all-saints.jpg?w=788&amp;ssl=1 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. 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