"Today Is The 1st Day Of November "ALL SAINTS DAY" In The Year Of Our Lord 2011."

"It Is Now Post Time.
"We're Off."  Evidently Jimmy McFinns power is off, no pics and I think he wants us to look at some web site that could be offensive too the human eye..Can't wait to click into that twilight zone.
Here it is, All Saints Day..One of the only caveats of growing up Catholic. We were off school the day after Halloween, of course we had too go to church..That gulag known as Catholic School, had a knot around your neck when you were a kid that takes half a life time to get off.. When we think of Saints, we are thinking of true heroes in most times something other than war..Most Saints if you ever read anything about them were mild mannered and meek yet strong people.  They lived by their convitions to their faith, in many circumstances at the risk of torturre and death. Most of the early Saints were martyred by the Roman Empire.  If you recall, they threw the early Christians to the lions as entertainment. These few brave souls, celebrated early Mass underground in catecombs or tunnels that they had dug out under the city.. These were the days when the true follwers of Christ, were devout in their faith.. They didn't need a hierarchy of Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, Monsigneurs, to look up to and depend on to tell them how to practice their religion.  The Apostles themselves, assigned the priests to say the early masses, and the few Christians of this time sacrificed their time, their families and their lives..Many were captured and Christianity was declared illegal, with the sentence of death attached to the illegality..The first Pope as the Catholic Church calls him was St. Peter. He was crucified along with St. Paul, who spread the word of Christ across the known world.. They begged to be crucified upside down as they did not deserve to die in the same manner as Christ..  If you look at these early Christians, they were truly Saints, the Catholic Church and other Churches, address this issue with statues and cannonizations, and to become a Saint now there has to be so many miracles performed in your name..Is this necessary? If you believe in what these various Churches teach, yes it is their proff that this man or woman is a Saint..Me, I basically have my own religion, and it is not hard to define who is a Saint..I don't know what faith Mother Theresa was, but if she isn't a Saint, who is? There was also the case of Father Damien who devoted himself to lepers, on the Island of Molokai he stayed and cared for them when no one else would. He contracted that dread disease and died, that is a Saint..I believe there are many truly holy and devout people that deserve Sainthood.. I myself pray to St. Joseph daily, and I must tell you the prayer that I have and have shared with a few people has been answered more than once.  I have no problem whatsoever in believing in Saints, and a spiritual world..I do have a problem with the pompous Churches that sprang up in the name of Christ, and dictated their doctrines and twisted what he said, and made people live on guilt to pay them stipend throughout the ages.. I believe these Churches are a scourge to Christ and his teachings.. I know one thing for sure having studied the life of Christ. He never had gold, he never had a home, he never asked anyone for money, and he sure never asked anyone to bow down and kiss his ring. I give homage today to all the Saints that are truly that, Saints, the very word denotes someone of devout faith and an honor bestowed on a human being because of the way he or she lived their life, giving to others, of themselves without question, and in a lot of circumstances losing their own lives.. These kinds of people should be beatified in a way that is above the common believer, and they truly deserve the Title of Saints.. Once again, my belief is that there are Saints in every walk of life, just like there are demons in every walk of life.. I know it is not necessary to be a Catholic or to be condoned by the Catholic Church to be a Saint.. It is a title bestowed on a very few thoughout history, and there is a reason for that, there are very few Saintly people.. Once again, this is just my humble opinion, whatever your beliefs on Religion, Saints, the hereafter, or anything to do with your God, is yours and yours alone.. I respect that, and just ask that you respect mine...Have a great Day, and remember, THE HOLIDAYS ARE STORMIN ON US!!!!