In his reflection for the Solemnity of All Saints, Tony explains how the lives of all the saints point us towards the fulfillment of our deepest desire as human creatures, happiness.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
Reading 2: 1 John 3:1-3
Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12a
Endnotes:
Hebrews 12:1
Lumen Gentium, Second Vatican Council Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 40.
St. Augustine of Hippo, The Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, 1.1.
Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth, Vol. 1: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, 40.
Philippians 2:12
Leviticus 19:1-2
Ephesians 5:1-2
Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth, Vol. 1: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, 71.
1 Corinthians 1:24
St. Augustine of Hippo, The Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, 1.4.11-12.
St. Augustine of Hippo, Exposition of Psalm 137.7-8.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Matthew, 5 L 2.410.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 70.1 & 70.1.3.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 69.1, Commentary on Matthew, 5 L 2.410-411.
John 1:29
Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth, Vol. 1: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, 71; cf. John 3:1-2.
Matthew 5:13-16
John 1:9-10
Matthew 5:16
Optatum Totius, Second Vatican Council Decree on Priestly Training, 16.
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.