How many stars can you name in the night sky? Polaris, probably, maybe a few others from astronomy class—Merak, Rigel, Betelgeuse. Not many more. But there are trillions and trillions of them, and even if we escape the light pollution of our cities and get a clear look up, what we see is just the smallest section of the heavens, a universe of light hidden from our sight.
The saints are the same way. Beyond the few we can name lies “a great multitude, which no man could number” (Rev. 7:9), a crowd to which the Church urges us to lift our eyes from the darkness of this earth and ponder the glory of God shining out in so many human lives. There are so many saints, such that we must set aside a day to commemorate them all because we lack sufficient days in the year even for those whose names we know.
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