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Since the eleventh century, the Feast of All Souls has been celebrated for deceased Christians that they could “relaxation in peace.” Catholics imagine, as we recite within the Creed, within the “communion of saints.”
In the Feast of All Saints and the Feast of All Souls, we solidify that perception. This is the union of the trustworthy on earth (the Church Militant), the saints in Heaven (the Church Triumphant) and the souls in Purgatory (the Church Suffering). This is the physique of believers, with Christ as the pinnacle. We are united in a non secular bond.
Through prayer we talk, and since we by no means die, however stay endlessly by means of the demise and resurrection of Christ, we will nonetheless talk with one another. As believers on earth, we will pray to our brethren who’re in Heaven or Purgatory. Those in Purgatory profit from our prayers, and we from theirs. They can not pray for themselves, so we have to keep in mind to hope for them. And we will ask these in Purgatory and people in Heaven to hope for us whereas we’re on our earthly pilgrimage with our vacation spot being Heaven.
The Feast of All Saints and All Souls has been misplaced to the secular celebration of Halloween, simply as our Lord’s beginning has been misplaced within the celebration of the approaching of Santa Claus. Traditions that aren’t lived are quickly forgotten.
Keep the feast days and provides the saints the remembrance and honor they deserve. And do not forget that they encompass us, cheering us on and at all times interceding for us.
From Johnnette Benkovic’s Graceful Living: Meditations to Help You Grow Closer to God Day by Day
“Some souls would endure in Purgatory till the Day of Judgment in the event that they weren’t relieved by the prayers of the Church.”
— Traditionally attributed to St. Robert Bellarmine
What providing or sacrifice can I make at present to learn the holy souls in Purgatory?
Prayer
Thank you, expensive brothers and sisters in Heaven, on your intercession for us. Please ask our Lord to grant us the graces we have to preserve our eyes targeted on the aim of Heaven and the braveness to complete the race in faithfulness to Him. Amen.
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