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Ten Short Lenten Meditations on Death & Eternity

Ten Short Lenten Meditations on Death & EternityPrinciple 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 […]

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Visit your dead friends

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.

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