All Souls Day
Nov 2 - All Souls Day All Souls Day - pray for all the living and dead All Souls’ Day gives the faithful a unique opportunity to remember all souls, living and dead, known and unknown, related and unrelated , indeed all faithful pilgrims on earth, the souls of the faithful departed being purified, and the blessed in heaven - all souls who together form the one body of the Church; and we believe that in this communion, the merciful love of God and the intercession of his saints is always attentive to our prayers. CCC 962 emphasises that death does not erase the communion of Christ’s faithful: those different states belong together in the one Church - the body of Christ. "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" Death is the ultimate vanquisher of hopes and dreams. In secular society, death is an almost a forbidden, taboo subject and there is a continuous conscious attempt to banish the thought of it from our minds - yet paradoxically death to...