They Are for Us and We Have Them

For All Saints Day, remember:

For whom are the saints? Well, for us sinners of course! We take them by the hand. Someone who does not give his hand may very well possess all the qualities we can think of, but one thing he could not be would be a Christian. — Cardinal Charles Journet

They are members of the Church of Heaven; they love you.

And for All Souls Day, may we pray for the dead, but may we also have confidence in them, for despite whatever may yet be unachieved in them, their hearts are forever locked on their goal:

All the while, we have an invisible army of heroic force, in the person of the souls of purgatory. And from time to time, these souls remind us to pray for them.

These beloved siblings seem so far away from us, but in reality, they have never been so close as they are now. — Marcel Văn

For more on the last set of quotes from Marcel Văn on the Church of Purgatory, see here.