Home Retreat: 'The Church's Best-kept Secret' by Fr Bede

With two of our greatest feasts of the Church at the start of November, All Saints (All Hallows, Halloween, the eve of All Hallows) and All Souls (remembering and praying for our loved ones still on their journey to heaven), it seems a fitting moment to search into the secrets of the journey from our current status as the “Church militant” into the attic space of the “Church suffering”, before our eventual crossing of threshold into the fullness of light and life in heaven as the “Church triumphant”.