The Commemoration of All Souls

We had company today, so we decided to go to the Novus Ordo Latin Mass at Our Lady of Atonement this evening. I absolutely love that church, and the Mass there.

The priest and deacons wore black vestments with orange-y gold crosses and trim for the All Souls Mass--very nice. There was the usual incense, chant, bells and organ music that I love.

My dad was very much in my prayers throughout Mass, in addition to my in-laws, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins who have died.

The practice of recommending to God the souls of the departed in that we may mitigate the great pains which they suffer, and that He may soon bring them to His glory, is most pleasing to God and most profitable to us. For those blessed souls are His eternal spouses, and they are most grateful to those who obtain their deliverance from prison, or even a mitigation of their torments. Hence, when they shall enter into heaven, they will certainly not forget those who prayed for them. It is a pious belief that God manifests to them our prayers for them, that they also may pray for us. Let us recommend to Jesus Christ, and to His holy Mother, all the souls in Purgatory, but especially those of our relatives, benefactors, friends, and enemies, and, still more particularly, the souls of those for whom we are bound to pray; and let us consider the great pains which these holy spouses of Jesus Christ endure, and offer to God for their relief the Masses of this day. (The Roman Missal, 1962)

Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them. (Ps. 111)
Amen