All Souls' Liturgy

Our Christian Catholic Tradition dedicates the month of November to the memory of all the saints and all the souls that have ever lived in the course of human history. It is during this month that we remember in a very special way our beloved dead through prayer and ritual.  We can do this in a variety of ways:  offering a mass for the repose of the soul of our loved one, visiting the graves of the deceased and regularly setting time aside for prayer and reflection.

During the Eucharistic celebration of All Souls on November 2, we entered into communion with our beloved dead.  A vital flow of life continues to exist between ourselves and our loved ones even beyond death, as love, presence and communication all transcend death.

We continue to nurture our relationships with the deceased, confident that they, now fully redeemed, enter into that relationship changed and transformed. What a wonderful time to address any ‘unfinished business’ we may have had with them and rejoice in a new level of loving interaction through which the perspective is wider and the distance between us is less!