We can pay no greater honour to the Saints than by offering up to God in their name the Blood of Jesus. The efficacy of their past merits and present prayers is greatly increased when offered to God in close association with the merits and prayers of our Lord. Therefore the Church commemorates on this day all the Saints in heaven without exception, and thus honours also those who are unknown and who have no public recognition in the Liturgy. (Roman Missal, 1962)Today I want to especially pray for my father, John, my mother-in-law, Twylah, my father-in-law Cecil, and my grandparents, George, Myrtle, Roy and Jewell. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; and may Your perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of malice shall not touch them: in the sight of the unwise them seem to die, but they are in peace. Alleuia. (Sap. 3, 1-2, 3) (Book of Wisdom)
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