A reading of the holy Gospel according to Jn 6:37-40
Jesus said to the crowds:“Everything that the Father gives me will come to me,and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,because I came down from heaven not to do my own willbut the will of the one who sent me.And this is the will of the one who sent me,that I should not lose anything of what he gave me,but that I should raise it on the last day.For this is the will of my Father,that everyone who sees the Son and believes in himmay have eternal life,and I shall raise him on the last day.”
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"For this is the will of my Father,that everyone who sees the Son and believes in himmay have eternal life,and I shall raise him on the last day.”
Do you want eternal peace? Not just for yourself but your parents, children, spouse, family, strangers and even those whom we find difficult to deal with?
The violet color of penance or the black color of mourning remind us on All Souls’ Day or The Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed of our duty to one another. We are given the opportunity beginning November 2 through November 11 of obtaining one plenary indulgence per day if we visit a cemetery and pray the Creed, One Our Father and the Pope’s intention. And that spells out for one soul a day the removal of temporal punishment of sins. That soul goes straight to heaven.
As we cling to God and His Saints to keep us away from the darkness of sin, we pray for the departed that their purification is completed and that they may see God in His splendor and be like Him and live in eternal peace.
To live with Christ, we must die. Die to self but also actual death—separation of our soul from the body. But at the Second Coming our souls will unite with our bodies.
May our voices celebrate God forever and may we, like David, pray to dwell in the house of the Lord.
We desire for ourselves and all souls in purgatory a theosis: the transformation of man into God.
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