"This feast is not just for those in heaven already."

Some good food for thought from Br. Raymund Snyder, O.P., on the Dominicana blog, about All Saints Day:

This feast is not just for those in heaven already. This is a feast in which we rejoice in our hope of dwelling with God, of being in heaven. When that little girl said, "people live there," she said implicitly, "I want to live there, too. I want one of those rooms." This is what today is for. Today the Church puts before us the vision of the multitude of saints worshiping God, and we are able to say, "I want that. That is where I belong." Thinking about the eternal happiness that the saints in heaven possess is meant to make us long and yearn to share in it too. "My soul is longing and yearning, is yearning for the courts of the Lord" (Ps 84:2).

Read his entire post, "Heaven: People Live There".