tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post5594071262301272735..comments2024-03-25T11:09:41.538-04:00Comments on a minor friar blog: All SoulsBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-74637679225566373412015-11-02T17:23:52.677-05:002015-11-02T17:23:52.677-05:00Thank you for your comment.Thank you for your comment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01428265606397901811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-8363776777292588992015-11-02T14:50:36.906-05:002015-11-02T14:50:36.906-05:00Sounds good to me. But I look forward to a rest to...Sounds good to me. But I look forward to a rest too.Brother Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-12957495159519657062015-11-02T14:37:37.205-05:002015-11-02T14:37:37.205-05:00For some strange reason, I have for some time now,...For some strange reason, I have for some time now, felt a certain irritation at the phrase "rest in peace" applied to the deceased. I don't really see Heaven as a place of rest, as in repose, but rather as a place of exultation, as a place of being alive and dwelling in the arms of the Lord. Rest somehow carries, for me, a connotation of sleep and I have difficulty seeing us as sleeping in Heaven. We will be awake and alive and making a joyful noise to the Lord for all eternity. We have tended to think of eternity as a very long time. But I realized that for God there is only now, and we will participate in that forever now. There will be no past or future, but only this moment in the blissful presence of God. What a joy this anticipation gives me. Am I wrong in these thoughts?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01428265606397901811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-75954387043466247362015-11-02T12:57:27.507-05:002015-11-02T12:57:27.507-05:00Thanks for the encouragement!Thanks for the encouragement!Brother Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-64722320974601046742015-11-02T12:52:14.669-05:002015-11-02T12:52:14.669-05:00God Bless you, father, for celebrating the three M...God Bless you, father, for celebrating the three Masses for the Dead today. As we know, anytime a Mass is celebrated many graces are poured down from heaven, to be used as our Mother wishes. Just think if all the priests in the world today celebrated the three Masses how many souls would fly to heaven on this day alone! May our Mother shower YOU with special graces for your unselfish act! kamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248881807382198330noreply@blogger.com