Communion of Saints

Each Sunday we confess in the Creed that we believe in the Communion of Saints.

After Horacio and I lost our unborn child, I wasn’t sure I wanted to see the delegation that was with the ILAG during those days. But I decided after getting out of the hospital to join them for a meal. It was painful to share my pain simply by sharing my presence with them, but I also received consolation from my brothers and sisters in Christ and as the days have past many have entrusted their pain to Horacio and me, sent their shared sorrow through an email or phone call. Our pain is still real, still deep, but the church—the community of saints—is whispering the gospel into our ears. They are giving us Christ who suffers for us and with us. Our brothers and sisters answer their call to reach out and remind us that we are not alone, we are not forgotten, and we are loved.

The community of saints sometimes says the wrong things and sometimes does not know what to say but always brings us back to the cross that formed us into one body with a call to console and to give Christ to one another.

What happened (is happening) to us happens to many… too many more than one realizes. Each loss is as painful as another but no loss is suffered alone for our dear Lord grieves with us.

Keep on sharing the hope we have in Christ to us and to one another, after all you are part of the Community of Saints. Thanks be to God!