All Souls Day
I’ll never forget that bleak January day when my father died. It was very hard to believe in the resurrection as I watched the undertakers carry away his lifeless corpse in a body bag. But imagine...
View ArticlePrayer, Purgatory, and All Souls Day
When I was a Protestant, there were things I thought I knew about the Catholic Church, things I knew I didn’t know about the Catholic Church, but didn’t want to learn, and then a box marked,...
View ArticleCommemorating the Faithful Departed
“You have faith in God; have faith also in me.” Why should we believe in purgatory? Why should we pray for our dead ones and offer Masses for the repose of their souls? How can we ever hope that the...
View ArticleLet Us Help the Souls in Purgatory
An all too common error among many believing Catholics is their attitude toward death and what happens immediately after death. All too many are convinced that their loved ones, immediately after...
View ArticlePraying for All Souls in Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have...
View ArticleRemembering All Souls Day
The Church has consistently encouraged the offering of prayers and Mass for the souls of the faithful departed in Purgatory. At the time of their death, these souls are not perfectly cleansed of venial...
View ArticlePray for the Dead, On All Souls Day and Every Day
It is a hallmark of the modern mind to reduce incredible things to their lowest utilitarian component. The splendor of nature becomes an evolutionary algorithm, the mysterious workings of love are...
View ArticleWalking Amongst the Dead
Exult all you who lie in the dust, For your dew is a radiant dew And the land of ghosts will give birth. (Is 26:16-19) When full of the trials of life, it is a sobering thing to walk through a...
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