Today, on the Feast of All Souls, we are remembering those we have known and loved — family members and good friends who have gone before us. Indeed, the whole month of November is a time when we remember our dead in a special way. As Christians, our remembering of those who have died is always a prayerful remembering. It is one of the ways we give expression to our ongoing communion with them in the Lord. In praying for them, we ask the Lord to bring them to the fullness of life. We also pray in thanksgiving for them, thanking God for the gift of their lives and for all the ways the Lord blessed us through them.
Today, we entrust our loved ones who have died to God. As “God’s love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us,” we pray that they may experience that love to the full.
As we commemorate All Souls days, we are reminded that all those who have died are not gone from us but gone before us.
Be assured we remember your deceased family members, relatives and friends in our Masses and Community prayers during the month of November.
We remember specially our Society members who have died since last November.
May all the names we recall and those who have no one to remember them be in the palm of God’s hand. May they rest in peace. Amen.
Photo: Altar of Friends, St Patrick’s, Kiltegan, Co Wicklow.