Matthew 11:25-30
FEAST OF ALL SOULS
Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children.
There is one thing that you always have to remember my dear friend. It is this: There is more to life than what meets the eye. I grew up in a place in Africa where the separation between the land of the living and the spiritual realm is very thin. In America, there seems to be a definite ending to life in our culture here. We take the dead to their place of rest and leave them there. Not so back home. Sometimes we bury our dead within the family yard. And most importantly they continue to communicate with us about everything. I never knew my grandmother but mama would often say to us “grandma came to me last night..” I thought mama was having a psychological breakdown.
Listen to the words in the liturgy of the vigil: Brothers and sisters, the bonds of family and friendship that knit us together in this life do not unravel with death….” This is our faith, the church militant, the church suffering and the church triumphant breath as one holy church. This is what we the Africans have been saying all along and we were called ancestral worshipers.
Today we remember our beloved souls that are gone but will never be forgotten. They actually are more involved in our lives than what meets our senses.
Fr Chibundi
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