
Spanish Bishop Prays in Front of Abortion Facility on All Souls’ Day Despite Oppressive Law
40 Days for Life is a prayer and fasting campaign to end abortion that began in the United States in 2004 and has spread throughout the world.
40 Days for Life is a prayer and fasting campaign to end abortion that began in the United States in 2004 and has spread throughout the world.
It is a tradition in the Arlington Diocese that many of those in attendance have lost a loved one in the past year.
Pope Francis offered Mass on All Souls’ Day for the repose of the souls of more than 150 deceased bishops and cardinals who died in the past year.
COMMENTARY: Fulfilling our Christian duty on All Souls’ Day and during the month of November
For souls in purgatory, their wills are basically good. They are saved. But they are not what they should be.
“Listen kindly to our prayers, O Lord, and, as our faith in your Son, raised from the dead, is deepened, so may our hope of resurrection for your departed servants also find new strength.” (Collect for All Souls’ Day)
“I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die” (John 11:25-26).
The specific Nov. 2 plenary indulgence one can receive for their own soul by visiting a church or an oratory and reciting an Our Father and the Creed, can now also be done on any day in November.
Pope Francis also prayed before St. Peter’s tomb itself on Nov. 2.
Pope Francis placed white flowers on some of the graves and paused at tombs to pray in silence before he offered Mass on the cemetery grounds.
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