Daily Mass gospel Reading

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 11.02.21 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

THE COMMEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED (ALL SOULS)

JOHN 6:37-40

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus talks about raising us on the last day. Our faith is that God will clothe the soul in a new and higher body, what Paul calls a "spiritual body." Here we might rely on the musings of John Polkinghorne, the Christian physicist, who appreciates the soul as the "form" or pattern of the person. God remembers this "form" and then reconstitutes it at a higher level during the resurrection, much as the pattern of an article or a photograph could be preserved in a computer’s memory and then reproduced in a new way.

Listen again to the words of Jesus in our Gospel today: "Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me." As you pray for the souls of your beloved dead, take comfort in those words. They will be raised again.

[MurphsLaw]

The souls of the just are in the hand of God,
and no torment shall touch them.
They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead;
and their passing away was thought an affliction
and their going forth from us, utter destruction.
But they are in peace.

+++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 will
but 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 him
may have eternal life,
and I shall raise him on the last day.”+++

[Old Yeller]

As you pray for the souls of your beloved dead, take comfort in those words.

Too late to pray for them after they are dead.

Hebrews 9:27: Just as man is destined to die once, and then the judgement.

[ebb tide]

From today's Epistle of the Second Mass of the Feast Day of All Souls:

[41] Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden. [42] And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain. ... [43] And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection, ... [44] (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,) ... [45] And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. [45] "With godliness": Judas hoped that these men who died fighting for the cause of God and religion, might find mercy: either because they might be excused from mortal sin by ignorance; or might have repented of their sin, at least at their death.

... [46] It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.

[46] "It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead": Here is an evident and undeniable proof of the practice of praying for the dead under the old law, which was then strictly observed by the Jews, and consequently could not be introduced at that time by Judas, their chief and high priest, if it had not been always their custom.

[Old Yeller]

What book of the bible is this? One of the non-canonical books that were added to the Catholic bible?

[Old Yeller]

What does the bible say about praying for the dead?

[ebb tide]

Probably one of the ones tossed by the heretic, Martin Luther.

[MurphsLaw]

Too late to pray for them after they are dead.

Do you believe then, that our Souls die too,
when our earthly bodies die?

[ebb tide]

4 Biblical Proofs for Prayers to Saints and for the Dead

[Old Yeller]

You’re hopelessly deceived.

[Old Yeller]

I believe God’s word. Not the “adding to God’s word”, that the Roman church is famous for.

[MurphsLaw]

I believe God’s word. Not the “adding to God’s word”, that the Roman church is famous for.

I asked a very simple question. Why is your deflecting answer avoiding the topic
– and shifting away from soul of this matter?
I will answer for me- No, I do not believe the Soul dies with the body.

Now suppose an acquaintance of mine dies suddenly covid- who I had NOT forgiven him for a bad thing he did or said to me. The Good Lord tells me - in no uncertain terms – that “I” will be only forgiven of MY trespasses, as when “I” forgive those who have trespassed against me.
I wanted to, I KNEW I must, but the grudge I still harbored did not allow me to tell this person I forgave them. What am I to do.
Pray to God that I really meant to forgive them all along? … and that maybe even I WAS wrong?
That’s not forgiveness… that’s confession. Should I who continues to live, be secure in knowing I will be forgiven?

This is just one of many situations where it is plausible to still have a connection to dearly departed souls that have left their human bodies - and that Christ in his Mercy would not make provision for us, so that we may not abandon any Soul, as he did not abandon us on the Cross..