"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land."
Matthew 5:5
Today is the Feast of All Saints and I feel like sharing about a saint I recently just "met." St. Alphonsus Rodriquez was a Jesuit Brother, who came to religious life after his wife and children tragically died when he was just under forty years old. He sought the religious life in his mid-life years, which is inspirational in itself, but the fact that his job within his vocation was as a porter (basically, he opened the door for visitors) at a Jesuit school in Spain, is even more inspirational. Each time someone knocked at the door Brother Alphonsus would say, "I'm coming, Lord!" Each visitor, he said, was Jesus. That seems to me to be the ideal definition of a saint--someone who continually opens the door to Jesus. Brother Alphonsus' humility and service teach us that, no matter how small a task we are to do, it must be done for Jesus. Each person who figuratively knocks on our door is Jesus and we should welcome them warmly. Happy All Saints Day today and happy All Souls Day tomorrow... Love, heidi
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