The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

INVOCATION OF SAINTS.19lSaints, not only inflicted a deadly wound on theCreed, but also severed the tenderest chords of thehuman heart. They broke asunder the holy tiesthat united earth with heaven, and the soul in theflesh with the soul released from the flesh. If mybrother leaves me to cross the seas, I believe that hefor me. And when he crosses thecontinues to praynarrow sea of death, and lauds on the shores ofeternity, why should he not prayfor me still?What does death destroy? The body. The soulstill lives and moves and has its being. It thinksand wills ard remembers and loves. The dross ofsin and selfishness and hatred are burned by thesalutary fires of contrition, and nothing remains butthe pure gold of charity.Oh, far be from us the dreary thought that deathcuts off our friends entirely from us ! Far be fromus the heartless creed which declares a perpetualdivorce between us and the just in heaven! Donot imagine, when you lose a father or mother, atender sister or brother who died in the peace ofChrist, that they are forgetful of you. The lovethey bore you on earth is purified and intensifiedin heaven. Or, if your innocent child, regeneratedin the waters of baptism,is snatched from you bydeath, be assured that, though separated from youin body, that child is with you in spirit,and is repaying you a thousand-fold for the natural life itreceived from you. Be convinced that the goldenlink of prayer binds you to that angeiic infant, and