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The three part celebrations conclude today. They started with Halloween. \u00a0No matter what it\u2019s actual origins, Halloween is a time to acknowledge the supernatural and the hellish. \u00a0A reminder that not only do we return to ashes, but there is, for many non-Modernists, a chance to go to furnaces as well.<\/p>\n

Yesterday countered that, a celebration of saints. \u00a0For Catholics, saints are simply those individuals upon whom the Church puts its seal of approval. \u00a0These are people the Church says \u2018by everything we believe, that person is now in the presence of the Holy One.\u2019 \u00a0There could very well be zillions more, it\u2019s just that the ones called Saint are recognized by the Church to have done what is evidence of heavenly existence. \u00a0A reminder that for all the powers of darkness and hell, God\u2019s grace is available, and greater.<\/p>\n

Today is All Souls<\/a>. \u00a0Fittingly, it\u2019s the day we remember the ones who have gone before. \u00a0Like my family members, my Dad, anyone I know and love. \u00a0We remember them and pray for them. \u00a0For in the Catholic tradition, the idea of Purgatory exists more explicitly than anywhere else. \u00a0Almost all Christian traditions acknowledge that between our sinful selves and our standing before the Holy One for eternity, we must be somehow made holy. \u00a0See Isaiah\u2019s vision of God\u2019s throne room for a good example.<\/p>\n

Still, Catholics \u2013 as Catholics do \u2013 unpack and expand that to a full blown doctrinal reality. \u00a0Complete times and ways to avoid it, prayers are given for those who die because it\u2019s assumed most people must spend a bit of time there, and an unpleasant time it is. \u00a0So today is a day we focus on that. \u00a0Like all Saint or Holy days, it\u2019s assumed that devout Catholics do anyway throughout the year. \u00a0 Just as we\u2019d like to think that Americans are patriotic on more days than July 4, or that consumers spend money frivolously on more days than the shopping days before Christmas.<\/p>\n