New Orleans has established its very own version of "the communion of saints;" the victory of one has become the victory of all---the celebration includes all--including those who have never held a football or run a sprint.
The belief in a spiritual communion of saints is very much the same---someone like me can commune with, learn from, ask for help from people like Mother Teresa, Padre Pio, St. Augustine, and the saints in our own families with whom we had some spiritual link. To know we can enlist the aid of this powerful spiritual army is to have the confidence that, no matter what, we can "win" the battle. The celebration has already begun in heaven; we just have to want to "be in that number."
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