Sunday, October 25, 2026------22nd S. af. P.
Smoke in this life, not the next. Sun, Oct 25 — Twenty‑Second Sunday after Pentecost The Abundance That Reveals the Wound Cigar: Medium‑bodied blend Pour: Buffalo Trace Reflection: Notice the abundance. October 25 stands in the quiet breadth of Ordinary Time, where the Church asks a man to stop rushing past the truth of his own soul. Yesterday you faced the pains that purify; today you face the reason they hurt. The poor souls in purgatory suffer not because God is harsh, but because God is generous. Their pain comes from abundance — the abundance of love they finally see, the abundance of truth they can no longer avoid, the abundance of holiness they were made for but resisted. The tradition teaches two causes of their suffering. The pain of loss is the ache of being held back from the Face they were created to behold. Ott reminds us they know they are God’s friends, and the separation cuts deeper precisely because their desire is pure. Aquinas sharpens the point: the more a ...
