We come to Church to worship God and to offer our prayers to Him.
In doing so, we also received blessings from God.
A blessing is a wonderful and amazing gift from God, because it is a sign of His love for us.
When our prayers and needs are answered, we know that it is because God loves us.
In receiving God's blessings, we are called to share God's blessings with others by being a blessing for others.
As we celebrate the Feast of All Saints, we celebrate those who received blessings from God and lived out God's blessings in this world.
Now that they are in Heaven, these Saints become God's blessings for us as they pray for us.
We also ask these Saints to pray for us. So we will pray to our patron Saints and other Saints who have inspired us.
Through the prayers of these Saints, we receive God's blessings so that we are able to live the life that God is calling us to.
And we know that God's blessings are lifting us up when we count our blessings instead of complaining about our troubles.
It is God's blessings that soften our hearts to be gentle and humble.
It is God's blessings that empower us to work for reconciliation and to be peacemakers where there are resentment and bitterness.
And it is God’s blessings that protect us for evil and danger.
As Jesus teaches us about the Beatitudes in the gospel (Beatitudes means blessings), we see that the Saints are God's blessings in action.
May the Saints pray for God's blessings to be upon us, so that we too will be God's blessings in action for others and for the world.