Blessed All Souls' Day, Pray for the Dead +++

Requiem aeternam…

During the Octave of All Saints, one may gain a plenary indulgence applicable to the Poor Souls in Purgatory by on any and each day from November 1 to 8, devoutly visiting a cemetery and praying, if only mentally, for the departed.

Traditionally, The Angelus Prayer is said at 6AM, Noon, and 6PM.

Here’s a suggestion: try adding the prayer just once to your daily routine at noon. It is a great way to relieve stress and return focus to that which is important. It takes only two (2) minutes; you can do it alone, with a friend, or a group.

The Angelus Prayer (English)
V. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary. R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary, full of grace, The Lord is with Thee; Blessed art thou among women, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, Now and at the hour of our death. Amen
V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord. R. Be it done unto me according to thy word.
Hail Mary. . .
V. And the Word was made flesh. R. And dwelt among us.
Hail Mary. . .
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the Incarnation of Christ Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.

On this Martinmas, remember that Jesus Christ, Our Lord, died on the cross to make every single one of us Sons of God and Heirs to Heaven. Be grateful for what we have, even in the face of adversity.

St Martin of Tours, pray for us.

“In place of the liturgy, fruit of a continual development, they have placed a fabricated liturgy. They have deserted a vital process of growth and becoming in order to substitute a fabrication. They did not want to continue the development, the organic maturing of something living through the centuries, and they replaced it, in the manner of technical production, by a fabrication, a banal product of the moment.”

-Pope Benedict XVI

O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin didst prepare a worthy dwelling-place for Thy Son: we beseech Thee, that as by the foreseen death of the same Thy Son, Thou didst preserve her from all stain, so Thou wouldst grant unto us also, through her intercession, to come unto Thee with clean hearts. Through the same our Lord.