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All Souls Day
Grotto Requests
Mass Requests
To request a Mass for the repose of the soul of a loved one or to offer a Mass for the intention of someone, please visit http://www.cscip.org/HCA/MassIntentions.shtml
“We have loved them during life; let us not abandon them in death, until we have conducted them by our prayers into the house of the Lord.” St. Ambrose
“Let us not hesitate to help those who have died and to offer our prayers.” St. Gregory
From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers for them. To remember loved ones through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is to champion their eternal joy. The Vatican Council II affirmed, “This sacred council accepts loyally the venerable faith of our ancestors in the living communion which exists between us and our brothers who are in the glory of Heaven or who are yet purified after their death….” Therefore just as we pray for each other and share each other’s burdens now, the faithful on earth can offer prayers and sacrifices to help the departed souls undergoing purification. No better prayer could be offered than that of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
“Prayer for others…. is the very beat of a compassionate heart. To pray for a friend that is ill, for a student who is depressed, for a teacher who is in conflict; for people in prison, in hospitals, on battlefields – is not a futile effort to influence God’s will, but a hospitable gesture by which we invite our neighbors into the center of our hearts. To pray for others means to allow their pains and sufferings, their anxieties and loneliness, their confusion and fears to resound in our innermost selves….It is in and through us that God’s Spirit touches them with his healing presence.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen
