saints

Ever since we can remember we have longed to be members of a group.  When we were children, we longed to be with our parents.  When we first went to school, we longed to be accepted by friends.  As we grow up, we embrace our nationality, our ethnicity, our culture, our heritage.  We long to be in relation to one another, by things which we share in common.  We long for this because God created us in his image, and he is a communion of persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  God is a social being, and so are we.  We are born into a family and journey toward a greater family, the communion of saints in heaven.      God has described the journey in the beatitudes.