By Brother Joseph Timothy
October 2, 2023
PDF: October, Month of the Saints
Every year in October over the last hundred or so years our Catholic Holy Days celebrating the Saints have been overshadowed and tainted by a modernist celebration of fear and death. This overshadowing has come about from a culture that took Catholic Holy Days and twisted them (knowingly or unknowingly) the feast days into something obscene.
I had written before about this topic, my appeal for Catholics to celebrate our saints during this month of the year, and my appeal to the Catholics to not let our feast days be hijacked by the culture around us,
“Our Saints, Our Hero’s: Happy All Saints Day”
“Don’t Let them Steal All Hallows Eve”
Although our “All Saint’s Day” Celebration is formally set at November 1st, it actually begins the day before with All Hallows Eve” . More than this, the perversion of “All Hallows Eve” (Halloween) begins in our society more than a month before the Catholic Feast Day wherein people will begin their celebration of fear and death sometimes well into September. So all of October (and for some places and people September) is filled with the perverted form of our feast day.
My hope is to appeal to you to make the most of this month (the month of October) in celebrating that which is part of our Catholic Culture, the Saints! Let us make this month about our beloved Saints everyday. In lifting up our Saints we lift up holy men and women who have pointed the way to the Lord Jesus Christ in ways that are rare in any human being.
“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.”
– I Corinthians 11:1
When we lift up and follow the Saints we lift up and follow Christ. So let us devote this month to just that as we prepare ourselves for the feast of “All Saints”. In this we must have faith in our Lords words,
“And if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me.”
– John 12:32
Lifting up the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in this bringing about the salvation of souls is the heart of what makes us Catholic. In this we find common ground with all of the Saints, because in this be become like them.
The Grace of the Lord be with you.
Brother Joseph Timothy 