Lord, hear usįind a merciful judge and cleansing of their sins. May they find real hope in the convictionĪnd that to him all people are alive. May our communities be places where believers work confidently Over everything that oppresses God’s children. The saints celebrate the victory of Christ Prayers for the month of Novemberīy the example of goodness and holiness in its members,įrom the most hidden to the most prominent. Leave some reflections at the back of the church where people can read them in the church or take them home for their own use during the month of November. The use of Autumn leaves in the sacred space can be effective as they reflect the sense of dying and letting go. Some ideas for the sacred space might include: This is usually a suitable place in the sanctuary area which will be left in place for the whole month of November. Many parishes will create a sacred space within the church. We mark this time of year in our parishes with events like the blessing of the graves, the celebration of remembrance services as well as commemorating All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day. It is a time when we are particularly conscious of those in our parishes who are grieving and all those families who have lost loved ones in the past year. November is a time for remembering and praying for our loved ones who have gone before us and whose loss we feel. These consist, primarily, in the celebration of the holy sacrifice of the Eucharist, mercy, and the application of indulgences to the souls of the faithful departed’ (Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy, 251).
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‘Indeed, the Church in its pilgrim members, from the very earliest days of the Christian religion, has honoured with great respect the memory of the dead and “because it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins” (2 Mac 12, 46) she offers her suffrages for them. On this day, which is a Holy Day of Obligation, we honour all of the Saints and ask them to pray for us.Īll Souls’ Day or more formally ‘the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed’ is a solemn celebration commemorating all of those who have died and is observed on 2 November.
The whole month of November is an interesting time of prayer in the Church as it is filled with many important feast days and it includes the days on which we commemorate all the saints and all the faithful departed.Īll Saints’ Day, also known as the Feast or Solemnity of All Saints, is celebrated every year on 1 November. In Baptism, the Lord’s disciples sacramentally die in Christ so as to live a new life.įrom the earliest days of the Christian religion the Church has honoured with great respect the memory of the dead. The death of a Christian is an event of grace, having as it does, a positive value and significance in Christ and through Christ. According to the faith of the Church, ‘to die in Christ’ begins at baptism. Death is the prolongation, in a new way, of life as the liturgy says: ‘For your faithful, O Lord, life has changed not ended while our earthly dwelling is destroyed, a new and eternal dwelling is prepared for us in Heaven’ (Missal, Preface). Seen from the perspective of the faith, ‘death is the end of man’s earthly pilgrimage, of the time of grace and mercy which God offers him so as to work out his earthly life in keeping with the divine plan, and to decide his ultimate destiny’ (CCC, 1013).ĭeath is the passage to the fullness of true life. ‘Our lives are measured by time, in the course of which we change, grow old and, as with all living beings on earth, death seems like the normal end of life’ (CCC, 1007). Death is the end of our earthly life, but ‘not of our existence’ (St Ambrose) since the soul is immortal.
It implies a particular understanding of the ineluctable mystery of death. They are not gone from us, but gone before us.īelief in the resurrection of the dead is an essential part of Christian revelation.
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