Plenary Indulgence

PLENARY INDULGENCE!  As a way of expressing charity towards our neighbors, we also believe in the Spiritual and Corporal works of Mercy; there are seven of each.  One of the Spiritual Works of Mercy is to pray for the living and the dead and one of the Corporal Works of Mercy is to bury the dead.  All of this culminates in the fact that  we have a special encouragement in November to pray for All Souls.  PRAYER WHILE VISITING A CEMETERY:  “Father, into your hands we commend our brothers and sisters who are buried in this cemetery. We are confident that with all who have died in Christ they will be raised to life on the last day and live with Christ forever.  We thank you for all the blessings you gave them in this life to show your fatherly care for all of us and the fellowship which is ours with the saints in Jesus Christ.  Lord, hear our prayer:  Welcome our brothers and sisters to paradise and help us to comfort each other with the assurance of our faith until we all meet in Christ to be with you and with our brothers and sisters forever. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.”