november plenary indulgences

Update / Month of the Holy Souls

My visit to my mother’s was very difficult for numerous reasons and I have been dealing with this situation. If you could keep my family in prayer, I would deeply appreciate it, and all our readers are kept in our prayers as well. Please know you can submit prayer requests and we will post them. A first name and city or state/country would be helpful.

I am slowed down also due to a sprained ankle, sustained in Rome on one of those spiral staircases! I thought it was getting better, but now is worse and I need physical therapy. In spite of all this, I have somehow been visiting cemeteries every day this week for the Holy Souls and it is an extraordinarily joyful thing. We still have a few more days.

It is the Month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Please see the following very interesting and unique article from catholicism.org…

Month of the Holy Souls

All Saints Day

Wishing everyone a happy and blessed All Saints Day! However, I lament because the Holy Mass has been taken from me. I am traveling to visit my mother as she just turned 94 (prayer request), and there is no Mass available here because the obligation has been done away with this year. Because this is a rural area, there is not even a daily Mass. So the All Saints Day Mass has been taken from the devout due to the cafeteria Catholics who so fail to appreciate the Presence of Christ, they cannot bear to come to Mass 2 days in a row. If that is too tedious for them, they will not enjoy Heaven, where they will be in His Presence for all eternity! Such people probably wouldn’t come to Mass anyway on a holyday. Am I angry? Yes.

So my family and I will find a way to celebrate this great and joyful feast in our own way. We will recite the Litany of the Saints and read the missal.

The monthly dedication post will be a few days late, as I am away, also the monthly newsletter for subscribers. Thank you for your patience.

Don’t forget today begins the wonderful November Plenaries! See link below…

November Plenaries from the 1st to the 8th