02/11/2025
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ALL SOULS' DAY (November 2) REMINDER‼️‼️
REMEMBER YOUR DEPARTED LOVED ONES IN PRAYER.
No matter how busy life gets, remember to take a moment to pray for your loved ones who have passed away this All Souls' Day. It’s a meaningful way to honor their memory and keep them close in our hearts.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May the souls of all the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen
For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.
2 Maccabees 12:44-45
PRAYER FOR THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.
Amen.
PRAYER REMEMBERING THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY
(A Monday Devotion)
O Lord, who art ever merciful and bounteous with Thy gifts, look down upon the suffering souls in purgatory. Remember not their offenses and negligences, but be mindful of Thy loving mercy, which is from all eternity. Cleanse them of their sins and fulfill their ardent desires that they may be made worthy to behold Thee face to face in Thy glory. May they soon be united with Thee and hear those blessed words which will call them to their heavenly home:
"Come, blessed of My Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; And let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace.
Amen.
A PRAYER FOR THE FORGOTTEN DEAD
A Monday Devotion
We must always remember the dead. The Holy Souls in Purgatory are guaranteed heaven, however, they cannot pray for themselves. For that, they need us.
Today's new-church funeral services place the emphasis on the celebration of life, the idea "Grandma is making meatballs up in heaven for everybody" idea. When, in fact, poor Grandma might be cooking, but not meatballs, in purgatory. In the old Requiem Mass, emphasis was placed upon the soul in need of salvation; it did not assume that the person already achieved the beatific vision.
So, it is essential that we continue to pray for the dead, now, even more than in the past.
A Chaplet for the Souls in Purgatory (1850)
To be said on an ordinary Blessed Rosary, by repeating the De Profundis at the cross; the Pater at the large beads; and at the smaller, the following invocations:
O good Jesus, have mercy on the souls in purgatory (or the soul, or souls of N.), and grant them eternal rest.
When the Chaplet is addressed to the Blessed Virgin, the Ave Maria (Hail Mary) is said at the larger beads; and at the smaller, the following invocations:
O Mary, Mother of grace, Mother of mercy, pray for (N.) and obtain for them eternal rest.
Each Decade may be offered with a particular intention, by using the following or similar forms:
1st Decade.
I offer Thee, O my Savior, this first Decade for the souls of my relations: through the Precious Blood which Thou didst shed them in Thy agony in the Garden of Olives, O good Jesus, have mercy on them.
2nd Decade.
I offer Thee O my Savior, this 2nd Decade for the souls of all those who have shown me kindness through the Precious Blood which Thou didst shed for them in Thy scourging, O good Jesus have mercy on them.
3rd Decade
I offer Thee, O my Savior, this third Decade for the souls of those whom I have at anytime offended (or for the soul that is most destitute: or for the souls that were the most devout to the most holy Virgin…): through the Precious Blood which Thou didst shed for them in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, O good Jesus, have mercy on them.
4th Decade
I offer Thee, O my Savior, this fourth Decade for the souls of my friends and companions: through the Precious Blood which Thou didst pour forth upon Thy cross, and through the dollars which Mary, our tender Mother, endured at the foot of the cross, O good Jesus, have mercy on us.
5th Decade
I offer Thee, O my Savior, this fifth Decade for the soul of my father (or my mother: or of N…): I offer Thee for this soul so dear to me, the Precious Blood and the Sacred Water that flowed from Thy Heart, transfixed by the lance: through the mysterious wound in Thy Divine Heart, O good Jesus open to this soul the gate of heaven, and grant me grace to be reunited with it forever in the bosom of Thy goodness.
De Profundis
Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice. Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall abide it. For with Thee there is merciful forgiveness: and because of Thy law, I have waited for Thee, O Lord. My soul hath waited on His word: my soul hath hoped in the Lord. From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord. For with the Lord there is mercy: and with Him plenteous redemption. And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
