Rarely does anyone claim the title 'saint' and no amount of theological teaching will change that. It has something to do with bragging.
Yet when the waters of baptism poured over our heads, we entered an amazing relationship with God, creator, redeemer and sanctifier. We became saints: those set apart for the service of God and God's work.
Most of us fit into other categories, some benign some uncomfortable. We are teachers, mechanics, managers, students... and sisters, friends, fathers, aunts...and bullies, whiners, gossips, emotionally detached....and divorced, single, living with someone, sleeping with everyone, widowed....and generous, open minded, peace loving, faithful....and cheap, prejudiced, belligerent, and lost.
Yet we are all saints. Set apart by virtue of our baptism to the work of this God for the sake of those whom God loves.
This Sunday the saints will gather to remember some of our brothers and sisters who left us and are now coming to know what it means to be counted among the saints by our God. Let us comfort those who sorrow and rejoice with those who have finally figured it all out. It is God's love that makes us saints, not we ourselves.
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