Yes, Tuesday, November 6th, is Election Day. No matter who is elected, we remember the words from Tuesday’s Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 22):
All the ends of the earth
shall remember and turn to the Most High;
All the families of the nations
shall bow down before God.

Let us remember this whether we are happy or disappointed with the results of the election!

Monday’s Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 131:1,2,3) leads us to peace.
In you, O God, I have found my peace.
O God, my heart is not proud,
nor are my eyes haughty;
I do not busy myself with great things,
nor with things too sublime for me.In you, O God, I have found my peace.
Rather, I have stilled and quieted
my soul like a weaned child.
Like a weaned child on its mother’s lap,
so is my soul within me.In you, O God, I have found my peace.
O Israel, hope in God
both now and forever.In you, O God, I have found my peace.
Saturday’s Responsorial Psalm from Psalm 42 reminds us of our longing for God. And since we are made in the image and likeness of God, it also tells us of God’s longing for us.
My soul is thirsting for the living God.
As the deer longs for the running waters,
so my soul long for you, O God.My soul is thirsting for the living God.

I love the second reading for this wonderful feast from Romans 5:5-11:
Sisters and brothers, Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
May our hope be enkindled by all the souls – saints and sinners (which all of us are at some time or another) – to pass this hope on to others.

On the Feast of All Saints we are reminded that we are all children of God.
Beloved: See what love God has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are . . . We are God’s children now, what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed, we shall be like Christ, for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:1-3).

The Buddha sad,
If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
So very similar to Paul’s words in his letter to the Ephesians:
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. (Ephesians 4:15)

If you were healed of blindness, what would you be amazed by?

We read in Sunday’s Gospel reading from Mark 10:46-52
As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.”
And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me.”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you.”
He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus said to him in reply, “What do you want me to do for you?”
The blind man replied to him, “Master, I want to see.” Jesus told him, “Go your way; your faith has saved you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.