--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 11/02/09 - All Souls Day description: Daily Readings Reflection for 11/02/09 - All Souls Day --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/11/02/daily-readings-reflection-for-110209-all-souls-day#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 11/02/09 - All Souls Day Nov 2, 2009 8:00:34 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 11/02/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Two homiletic reflections:  All Souls Day, Nov. 2 Lectionary #668 and 31 Monday in Ordinary Time Lectionary # 485. Scripture reflection for All Souls.  Since there are many texts for this day, the reflection is upon the theme itself. Our last days of October and the first two days of November turn our thoughts to those who have journed before us in the long history of salvation that weaves into unnoticeably into secular history and that shows God's subtle touch of wisdom and humor.  These days with lengthening shadows in some parts of our world and that take place in the ethereal season of autumn lend to our deepest and fondest memories of the holy ones who have gone before us in the light of faith and are now in the Kingdom of God seeing God.  The canonized holy ones are often referred to as saints (some say with a capital letter) and our departed loved ones who lived their faith equally well with many of the former are also remembered on the feast of All Saints.  The ones whom we knew as friends, colleagues, relatives, parents, etc. have now entered into the mystery of God's eternal love and they are now eternally at peace--even those whom we say are "in purgatory."  Both the canoncial saints and the faithful departed have helped us in our own journey of faith; some even have held our hand and showed us the way toward God. Remembering them is a part of our virtue of hope received at Baptism. Trusting in God's love for them we now can recall their good deeds on this day and keep our hearts burning with love for them.  Vatican II in the Constitution on the Church called a "Light for the Nations" (Lumen Gentium) prompts us to extend what is said of the Saints (capital S) to those who have been among our faithful departed ones. They have already passed through purgatory and are in the presence of God.  Many of us actually pray to those who were among our loved ones: brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers.  We often get inspiration from them even in some of our God-given talents.  Here is the important paragraph from Vatican II: "In the lives of those companions of ours who are more perfectly transformed into the image of Christ ("It is given to us, all alike, to catch the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, with faces unveiled; and so we become transfigured into the same likeness, borrowing glory from that glory, as the spirit of the Lord enables us." Msgr. Ronald Knox translation). God shows vividly to humanity his presence and his face. He speak to us in them and offers us a sign of his Kingdom, to which we are powerfully attracted, so great a cloud of witnesses are we given and such an affirmation of the truth of the Gospel...Our communion with the saints joins us to Christ from whom as from its fountain and head flow all grace and life of the people of God itself. ("Why then, since we are watched from above by such a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of all that weighs us down. of the sinful habit that clings so closely, and run with all enduriance, the race for which we are entered." Hebrews 12:1, Knox). Lumen Gentium # 50. Thus both the feast of All Saints and All Souls are to be our celebration of the hope, trust, and remembrance of those whom we love and those who have inspired us to keep on the journey toward God and to stay with them in the race toward the Kingdom. Amen. Scripture: Lectionary 485: Romans 11:29-36. Psalm 69:30-31.33-34.36-37. Luke 14:12-14. Jesus looks to the resurrection of the just while Paul prays ardently about the mercy of God toward all peoples. Behind his prayers is the word that captures this mercy, love, and compassion of God. It is the Hebrew word "Chesed" and is always central to the covenants God has made with us. Paul is praying with the thought of Chesed in his heart as he ends the great chapters of nine through eleven in his epistle to the Romans.  This brilliant prayer shows his concern for both the Jewish and the Gentile peoples.  We learn from this prayer that God's mercy endures forever and is given to every righteous person and even more generously to the sinners for whom God has great patience and love. God is love and God's wisdom about us is infinitely beyond our thinking and imagination. His wisdom is inscrutable as Paul knows so well. Paul goes on to say that even those who were disobedient and had not listened to the voice within them and to God's words, that they,too, are showered with the love of God and God's loving-kindness. Jesus words and his parable to the one who invited him tells of the need for the guests to have a humble and generous heart when accepting their invitation. Hospitality is to be offered as true service without the ones invited neglecting their courteous and sensitive propriety as to what is expected by the host. This is a good section of Scripture for the theme of hospitality.  For practical purposes today it could mean that when we receive an invitation (an R.S.V. P.) we should answer it! Finally, the ending of this great section of Paul's letter is our prayer for the day: "How deep is the mine of God's wisdom, of his knowledge; how inscrutable are his judgments, how undiscoverable his ways! Who has ever understood the Lord's thoughts, or been his counsellor? Who ever was the first to give, and so earned his favours? All things find in him their origin, their impules, the centre of their being; to him be glory throughout all ages. Amen. 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