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• The first reading from the book of Revelation speaks of the ones who have become the saints.
• It gives a great vision, meant symbolically, of what Heaven is like when the angels and saints gather at God’s throne.

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• John reminds us that we are God’s children, in a unique and special way.
• And yet, even though we are already children of God, we look forward to what is still to come.
• John describes that time as light, when we shall all see God.

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• Here Jesus describes the life of a saint as one filled with blessings.
• But the blessings are not necessarily what the world would consider good.
• Saints are those whom God has chosen and blessed with his gifts.