Thomas Griffin 11/1/25 (For National Catholic Register)
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“We are all born originals,” St. Carlo Acutis used to say, “but many of us die as photocopies.”
As we celebrate All Saints’ Day, this is the perfect encouragement and mindset for us to have.
The saints were those who truly lived. They were the ones who accepted Jesus as the central focus of their lives. To them, faith was not a matter of blind trust, nor was it the simple following of rules and teachings. The saints accepted the call to be who God made them to be. They knew who Jesus was, and their every movement of mind and action was centered on him.
Ultimately, the saints reveal three critical messages for our life of faith. They insisted that our faith is a love story, that our faith is true, and that our faith must be our first priority.
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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