COMMUNION OF SAINTS MEANS TO HAVE FRIENDS FROM ALL OVER

We must also keep in mind that it is really lovely to be in a company, to journey on in a large company of all the centuries, to have friends in Heaven and on earth and to be aware of the beauty of this body, to be happy that the Lord has called us in a body and has given us friends in all the parts of the world.

--Benedict XVI, Address to Seminarians of Rome, 2011