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Show : ALL SOULS DAY : ;t444444444-f44--44444 j ALL SOULS DAY. j (Written for the Intermountain Catholic.) j On Thursday, Nov. 2, the Church commemorates All Souls day. Every ! Priest, Bishop and even the Pope are obliged on that day to recite the olhce ; of the dead, besides the regular office described. Holy Mother Church teaches us that the souls of the just who have left this world soiled with the stains of venial sin remain for a time in a f lace of expiation, where they suffer punish- 1 ment as may be due to their offenses. It is a matter of faith that these i"ou!s are relieved by the intercession of the Saints, and by the prayers of the faithful faith-ful upon earth. To pray for the dead is, then, both an act cf charity and of piety. We read in IToly Scripture: "It is a holy and whole-some thought j to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sin." I And when our Lord inspired the Saint j Odilo, Abbot of Cluny, towards the close of the tenth century, to establish in his order a general commemmoration of all the faithful departed, it was-soon was-soon adopted by the church, and has been continued unceasingly to our day. Let us, then, ever bear in mind the dead and offer up our prayers for them. By showing this mercy to the poor suffering fouls, we shall be particularly par-ticularly entitled to be treated witn mercy at our departure from this world and to share more abundantly in the general suffrages of the church, continually contin-ually offered for' all who have slept in Christ. Fidelilum ani-mae, per miseri;ordiam, Life means, be sure, both heart and mind are both active, both complete, and both in earnest. REV. MICHAEL MULLER, C. SS. R. ALL SAINTS. Holy Mother Church celebrates on Wednesday, Nov. 1, the feast of All-Saints. All-Saints. The church pays, day by day, a special spe-cial vene ration to some cne of the holy men and women who have helped to establish es-tablish it by their blood, develop it by their labors, or edify it by their virtues. vir-tues. But, in addition to those whom the eJhurch honors by special designation, designa-tion, or has inscribed in her calendar, bow many martyrs are there whose names are not recorded! How many humble virgins and holy penitents! How many juet and holy anchorites or young children snatched away in their innocence! How many Christians who have died in grace, wh"se merits are known only to God, anel who are them-' selves known only in 'heaven! Now, should we forget those who remember us in their intercessions? Besides, are they not our brethren, our ancestors, fi ie'ncls . and ' fellow Christians, with whom we have lived in daily companionship compan-ionship in other words, our. own family? fam-ily? Yea, it is one family; and our place is marked out in this nome 01 eternal light and eternal love. |