Message From the Director
Dear Friend of Our Lady of Angels,
There are two days during the year when a priest is allowed to celebrate three Masses. One is Christmas Day to celebrate the Incarnation and the other is All Souls Day, November 2nd. Celebrating three Masses is certainly a reserved privilege and saved for the most special of occasions. The Birth of the Savior needs no explanation. I will offer a few thoughts for November 2nd.
Allowing a priest to celebrate three Masses on All Souls Day communicates the great value that the Church places on praying for the dead. We accompany each other through life with love, companionship and care. We give gifts and celebrate special days. After we die our prayers for our loved ones are the only way that we can continue to walk with each them and touch their lives. Prayers for the dead are our gift today.
The Church has long taught that when we celebrate the Eucharist, the entire Church meets around that table. The Church present on earth, the Church in Heaven and the Church still journeying to Heaven. How blessed we are to have this holy place to embrace our loved ones.
I go to the cemetery for my parent’s birthdays and Christmas. The section that they are buried in used to look like a florist shop at Christmas but now as the generations pass on the graves are pretty barren. What remains are the promised prayers. If you recall from their funerals the many, many promises of perpetual prayers in the beautiful cards received at their death.
Prayer is the link between this world and the next.
Our Lady of Angels Association has a Mass offered each day during November for your deceased loved ones and others whom you enrolled in these thirty Masses. What a blessing it is that each day in November, your loved ones and the poor souls in purgatory are remembered at Mass.
Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. Amen
In Mary Immaculate,
Executive Director
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