Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 1, is the Solemnity of All Saints, a feast that inspires tremendous hope. From November 1 to the 8th, we pray for the Faithful Departed.  The Catholic Church celebrates all the saints, canonized or beatified, and the multitude of those in heaven enjoying the beatific vision. We all have a universal call to holiness to join the company of the saints in heaven. To achieve this, we must devote ourselves with all our being to God’s glory and our neighbor’s service. “In this way, the holiness of the People of God will grow into an abundant harvest of good, as is admirably shown by the life of so many saints in Church history,” states Lumen Gentium. The Catechism (CCC 1024) says, “This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity—this communion of life and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels, and all the blessed—is called “heaven.” Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness.” On All Saints Day, the Church recalls the magnificent vision of “all nations and tribes standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands, proclaiming Him who redeemed them in His Blood.” All saints lived lives like our own on earth. They were baptized, marked with the sign of faith, faithful to Christ’s teaching, and they have gone before us to the heavenly home whence they call on us to follow them. It is worth remembering that visiting a cemetery and praying for the faithful from November 1 through November 8 will earn you a plenary indulgence that can be applied only to souls in Purgatory. Today, we pray and chant the Litany of the Saints. This litany is considered the model of all other litanies. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Holy Spirit, come! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York