During November, we are reminded to remember and honor the dead
The month of November is traditionally the month in which we remember our beloved dead.
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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, 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 | Aug 6, 2022 | A Hiker's Guide to Purgatory, Books, Features, God, Michael Norton, News, Novel, Purgatory, Salvation | 0 |
Fictional portrayals of purgatory have a grand lineage. Dante climbed the seven-tiered mountain centuries ago, and Tolkien placed his character Niggle (in the short story “Leaf by Niggle”) in a sort of otherworldly hospital-cum-labor camp. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | News, Purgatory, The Dispatch | 0 |
Our souls demand Purgatory, don’t they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, “It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, last things, Lent, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Purgatory, Saint Alphonsus Liguori | 0 |
Principle and Foundation Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. (Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 23) In the […]
by bcadmin | Feb 18, 2022 | Into the Deep, Knowing the Faith, News, Purgatory | 0 |
“God’s Mercy does not overlook imperfections and sin, it removes them and repairs the damage… and we are called to participate in His Mercy.“ Keeping it simple! On a recent Friday morning, while leading a bible study for retiree…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 27, 2022 | Daily Quote, God's Love, News, Purgatory | 0 |
Image: Photo by Max Kukurudziak on Unsplash A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “For Purgatory, after all, is the fire of the love of God, cauterising the wound of sin.” (Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God) Print this entry
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by bcadmin | Nov 11, 2021 | Already/Not Yet, News, Octave of All Saints, Plenary indulgence, Plenary indulgences, Purgatory, souls in purgatory | 0 |
If this was an ordinary year, the Octave of All Saints — the weeklong stretch when the Church offers a plenary indulgence for souls in purgatory, obtained in part by visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead — would be over by the time you’re reading this column. The period is typically Nov. 1 through Nov. 8.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 7, 2021 | All Soul's Day, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death and dying, Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, News, Purgatory, Washington D.C. | 0 |
As the world was about to cross a grim statistic Nov. 1 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Catholics were preparing for the solemn observation of death on All Souls’ Day.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Catholic Answers, Featured, Masses for the dead, News, Purgatory, Q&A, Why Do Catholics Do That | 0 |
Q) Why do Catholics offer Masses for the dead?
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