On the Feast of All the Saints, the Church rejoices with its fully divinized and purified members in Heaven. The joy they have of being finally free from temptation, worldly allurements and the chaos of the passions expresses only a comparatively insignificant fraction of their happiness. Their joy comes from an unobstructed vision of the Trinity, whose eternal glory has thickened their souls with love. Heaven is filled with beings whose purity and perfection are the burning reality of God’s love that has completely transformed their essence. The lives of the Saints as they were known on earth are but a depressing and sad shadow of their heavenly bliss.
Fr. Francis Therese Krautter csj