{"id":3796,"date":"2019-11-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2019-10-31T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T01:40:35","slug":"all-saints-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/all-saints-day\/","title":{"rendered":"All Saints Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3796\" class=\"elementor elementor-3796\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-24c2d9de elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"24c2d9de\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-45363a75\" data-id=\"45363a75\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-210d3782 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"210d3782\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" title=\"All Saints Day 11\/01\/19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/gc5ds-c4d026?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;skin=1&amp;btn-skin=107&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;pbad=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><strong style=\"font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: -0.1px;\"><u>Today is All Saints Day, a day when you and I will be remembered \u2013 hopefully for our goodness<\/u>!<\/strong><\/p><p>I\u2019ve celebrated many funerals in the past 50 years. When I go to the wake I ask the immediate family to tell me about the deceased so I can weave this into my homily the next day.<\/p><p>Often enough the family say wonderful things about the deceased lying in the coffin: <em>\u201cShe always thought of others before herself.\u201d \u201cHe never had a bad word to say about anyone else.\u201d \u201cHe was very caring, considerate and loving. He had a great smile, a wonderful sense of humor.\u201d<\/em> <u>Sometimes the family says very little about the deceased.<\/u><\/p><p>I was visiting a sick parishioner in the hospital one day. He\u2019s heard a number of my homilies at funerals. He said to me: <strong><em>\u201cSo often I think, what is the priest going to say about me someday?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> I bet we have all wondered about that.<\/p><p><strong>You and I are here today possessing the most precious gift after life itself \u2013 <u>TIME<\/u>. You and I have TIME to do something beautiful with our lives.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I once overheard a woman comment on her husband\u2019s bad disposition: <em>\u201cHe can be so nice when he wants to be. He just never wants to be.\u201d<br \/><\/em><\/p><p><u>Someone once said that God is so special because God creates out of nothing<\/u>. The person next to them commented,<strong><em> \u201cI think God does something even more wonderful. God makes saints out of sinners.\u201d <\/em><\/strong> <em><u>A God Touch<\/u><\/em><\/p><p>Oscar Wilde said it best:<strong><em> \u201cThe only difference between a saint and a sinner is \u2013 That every saint has a <u>past<\/u> and every sinner has a <u>future<\/u>!\u201d <\/em><u>What does your future look like<\/u>?<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is All Saints Day, a day when you and I will be remembered \u2013 hopefully for our goodness! I\u2019ve celebrated many funerals in the past 50 years. 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