On 1 November, the Church celebrates the ‘immense multitude’ that no one can count: not only the saints on the altars, but also the discreet holiness of those who, day after day, allow themselves to be moulded by the Gospel. From a Vincentian perspective, this feast is the day of the Beatitudes lived: holiness not as an unattainable peak, but as a concrete path of ‘affective and effective’ charity, of industrious humility, of closeness to the poor who are ‘our lords and masters.’
