Preparing for All Souls Day

[The_Reginator]

From an email newsletter I receive:

From Scott P. Richert, your Guide to Catholicism
Next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mark one of my favourite periods in the liturgical year. After the reminder of evil and our own mortality on Halloween and the glorious triumph of good over evil in the lives of those who have conformed themselves to Christ on All Saints Day, we arrive where we always must in this vale of tears: at solidarity with our fellow Christians—in this case, the faithful departed, who are gone from this life but not from our memory.

From Mr. Richert’s About.com - Catholicism blog, Preparing for All Souls Day.
From this article:

Since praying for the dead is our Christian duty, it’s sad to see how little attention is paid to All Souls Day. That’s especially true since there is a special plenary indulgence that can be gained for the souls in Purgatory on All Souls Day. A plenary indulgence removes all temporal punishment for sin–and so, in effect, releases a soul from Purgatory.

All you have to do is visit a church, recite one Our Father and the Creed, receive Communion, and pray one additional Our Father and one Hail Mary for the intentions of the Holy Father.

The final requirement is that you take part in the Sacrament of Confession, but you can do that up to seven days before or afterward. Since most Catholic parishes offer Confession on Saturday, you can go to Confession this Saturday, and then fulfill the rest of the requirements on All Souls Day itself.

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.

 

[jen_fla]

From an email newsletter I receive:

From Mr. Richert’s About.com - Catholicism blog, Preparing for All Souls Day.
From this article:

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.

thanks for posting this, reginator.

nice avatar, btw.

 

[Carolus_Martell]

Huh, that’s it to gain the indulgence? I always thought you had to also go to a cemetery and pray for the dead.

 

[The_Reginator]

Huh, that’s it to gain the indulgence? I always thought you had to also go to a cemetery and pray for the dead.

Here’s a thread about this from last year:
**Visiting Cemetery On “All Souls Day” Question?
**

Here’s one post:

To get a plenary indulgence:

1. Confession within the octave (eight days of the indulgenced act) plus
2. Communion on the day, plus
3. Prayer for the Pope’s intentions, plus
4. Free from sin and attachment to sin, plus,
5. Doing the indulgenced act.

I think that’s it.

But it’s past bedtime. Goodnight Carolus.

 

[The_Reginator]

Prayer for 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.

O God, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful: grant to the souls of Thy servants and handmaidens the remission of all their sins: that through pious supplications, they may obtain the pardon which they have always desired: Who livest and reignest.**

Prayer source: 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal.