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A Sermon for the Feast of all Saints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Today, dearly beloved we are celebrating the feast of all the saints in one joyous solemnity. Those saints whose fellowship is the delight of heaven; whose protection is the joy of earth; whose triumphs are the Church's crown; whose confessing of the Faith glows brighter in esteem, the braver their torments made it. For the harder the fight the greater the warriors’ glory; and many and varied are the sufferings which furnish the triumph of martyrdom. As the severity of their tortures increases, so too does the reward. Our Mother, the Catholic Church, extending far and wide throughout the world, was clearly taught by Christ Jesus, her Head, to fear neither insults, nor tortures, nor even death itself. Strengthened ever more and more, not by resistance but by endurance, she was the inspiration of the triumphal glory of all those whom the penalty of imprisonment brought together in a glorious army, with one and the same ardent courage to fight the battle.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1947 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Migne Patrologia Latina, vol, xciv, col. 450. (Homiliae Bedae Venerabilia Subditiciae-hom. Ixx.) Extracts from this sermon form the lessons of the second nocturn for the feast of All Saints and within the Octave in the Roman Breviary.