Feast of All Souls

“Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?”
—Matthew 25:37

“One of the monks, called Serapion, sold his book of the Gospels and gave the money to those who were hungry, saying: I have sold the book which told me to sell all that I had and give to the poor.”
—Wisdom of the Desert

We are lukewarm Christians, all of us. We do not take the Gospel seriously. When someone does take it seriously—Francis of Assisi, or Teresa of Calcutta, or our desert monk Serapion—we consider them a saint (and usually a bit of a nut).

But their calling is not different from ours. The only difference between us and the “saints” is the dedication of their response to the call. The Gospel clearly demands a radical shift in the transformation of our society and our hearts.

Who is really the nut here?