On the feast of All Saints, the death-row prisoners of Turin whom St. Joseph Cafasso prepared for the scaffold show that holiness is within reach, for, as St. Alphonsus teaches, accepting death in perfect conformity to God's will earns a merit like that of the martyrs. The Church's teaching on beatification and canonization is then explained: in canonizing, the Church infallibly declares that the soul died in grace and now enjoys the beatific vision, so we can keep our eyes on the goal of joining our elder brothers and sisters in heaven.Listen with the full transcriptGo to episodeSermon of the Day podcast