" Slight correction ... God is the God of the living not the dead. The living on earth and in heaven are one family."
Sorry, I was just using what I thought was established Catholic terminology.
Prayers for the Dead
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04653a.htm
"And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints." - Revelations 5:8