Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church 

Ave Maria!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

The month of Novemeber calls us to remember the deceased brothers and sisters!

PRAYING FOR THE DEAD – The Most Sensible Gift on the Feast of All Souls 
 
Catholic Faith is unambiguous in its belief that those who die without mortal sin but with many of life's imperfections still unhealed will experience a time of perfect healing from sin and brokenness and a time for whatever expiation from sin the merciful God requires of a soul before that soul may enter Heaven. Further, the Church has been clarifying for centuries that prayers, sacrifices and most particularly, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, are of assistance to those souls who are in Purgatory. Ancient Christians believed in the practice of praying for the dead. Many locations in the ancient catacombs reveal passages marked into the walls reminding the living to pray for the dead. St. Monica begged her son, St. Augustine, to pray for her after her own death. In 1439, the Second Council of Florence acknowledged that some souls must still expiate for past sins after their death and they do so in Purgatory. The 16th-century Council of Trent, legislated "that Purgatory exists, and that the souls detained therein are helped by the suffrages of the faithful, but especially by the acceptable sacrifice of the altar". 

Let us remember our dear departed ones and offer our prayers, sacrifices and Holy mass that they may enter the beatific vision purified of their souls.
 
Fr. Rajan sdb
Parish Priest

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