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For now we pray that we, all of us, may shine with that same splendor as we bear witness to the beauty, goodness, and dignity of human life from the moment of conception until natural death, and by our love of mother and child and our love of the sick and frail elderly, win many hearts and minds to the proposition that life is beautiful If we do so, we will have every confidence that on the day of judgment Jesus with say to us, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

What we hide from ourselves in darkness, the Lord Jesus brings to light, not to shame us or to make us feel bad but to renew, repair, and rebuild us, so that the glory shining on his face might shine from deep within us.

In the graces of Holy Orders, we were urged configure ourselves to the Christ who came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life in love.

Perhaps the greatest proof of the Church’s divine origins is the mere fact that, like St. John Lateran, the Church has survived, not as an artifact of history but as the living, breathing Body of Christ of which you and I are the members.

Both the Book of Deuteronomy and Jesus himself in Mark’s Gospel instruct us that the first and greatest commandment is to love God with all one’s heart, and Jesus adds, “you shall love your neighbor as yourself” – that is to say, from the very depth of your heart.

But we should also take great comfort the existence of purgatory – that state of being further purified even after death, that is to say, made ready for heaven, where we are to receive and reflect the infinitely pure and beautiful love of the Triune God with which all the saints are resplendent.