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by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2022 | All Soul's Day, death, Featured, memento mori, News | 0 |
2Mc 7:1-2,9-14; 2Thes 2:16-3:5; Lk 20:27-38 I was struck as I watched the video of my father’s funeral some months ago, seeing the coffin being lowered slowly into the grave as the family and friends offered prayers for him. I seriously asked myself then how authentic was my faith in the resurrection of the dead. […]
by bcadmin | Nov 6, 2022 | All Soul's Day, Commentary, dead, Death and dying, lead, News, Purgatory, Spirituality | 0 |
The month of November is traditionally the month in which we remember our beloved dead.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | All Soul's Day, All Souls, Featured, Indulgences, News, November, Purgatory, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Editor’s note: Special indulgences may be gained for the souls in Purgatory throughout the Octave of All Saints, November 1-8. See here for ways to help the Holy Souls. Purgatory is a marvelous contest of love between God and the soul, and, in a contest of love, there is no space for anything that is […]
by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2022 | All Soul's Day, All Souls, Featured, Final judgment, From the Pope, Gospel of Matthew, News | 0 |
As Christians await their death and the final judgment of God, the Gospel tells them what they must do to be welcomed into heaven: love others because God is love, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2022 | All Soul's Day, Catholic News Service, cemetery, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican City State | 0 |
As Christians await their death and the final judgment of God, the Gospel tells them what they must do to be welcomed into heaven: love others because God is love, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2022 | All Soul's Day, Jimmy Swaggert, John Henry Newman, News, Protestantism, Purgatory, St. Catherine of Genoa, The Dispatch, The Dream of Gerontius | 0 |
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on the Commemoration of All Souls, November 2, 2022, at Our Lady of the Atonement Church in San Antonio (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter). Allow me […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | All Soul's Day, death, Eucharist, Homer, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesus Christ, News, Purgatory, Resurrection, The Dispatch | 0 |
If you aren’t nerdy enough to read The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and also the appendices to the books, then you aren’t nerdy enough. I’m kidding, of course, but it is true […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | All Saints Day, All Soul's Day, Blessed Virgin Mary, intercessory prayer, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Knowing the Faith, Mystical Body of Christ, News, Prayer, Saints, Solemnity of All Saints, St. Paul | 0 |
The Solemnity of All Saints Today is the Solemnity of All Saints, a celebration of those who have died and attained Heaven. We will remember those who are undergoing purgation tomorrow on All Souls Day. Today, I would like to look at the Catholic pract…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, All Saints Day, All Soul's Day, and the Resurrection of the Body Emmaus Press, book about the resurrection of the body, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Fr. Gerald E. Murray, From Here to Eternity by Randall Smith, From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, Jesus Christ, Michael Pakaluk, News, Randall Smith, resurrection of the body, saints in heaven, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Few things challenge our tranquility and provoke a sense of existential dread more profoundly than the thought of death. If…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2022 | All Soul's Day, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Church in Philippines, News, Philippines | 0 |
Environmentalists are urging the millions of Catholics who flock to cemeteries on All Souls’ Day to take only biodegradable materials.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2022 | All Saints Day, All Soul's Day, Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, lead, Mexico, News | 0 |
During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early November in Mexico, the living remember and honor their dearly departed, but with celebration — not sorrow.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 29, 2022 | All Soul's Day, Archdiocese of Seattle, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death and dying, News | 0 |
For nine evenings leading up to All Souls’ Day Nov. 2, parishioners have been gathering in their parish courtyard amid the crosses of their virtual cemetery to pray the rosary in English and Spanish.
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