"IF YOU ARE WHAT YOU SHOULD BE, YOU WILL SET THE WHOLE WORLD ON FIRE."
"LET THE TRUTH BE YOUR DELIGHT.... PROCLAIM IT..., BUT WITH A CERTAIN CONGENIALITY." ~ St. Catherine of Siena
"To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop." ~ Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of Life, n.101
Everything is grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love.Everything is grace because everything is God's gift.Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events -- to the heart that loves, all is well.
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By a solid 240-194 margin, The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday adopted an extremely important pro-life amendment that will essentially prohibit federal funding of abortion in the health care reform legislation. Folks, this is a huge deal.
This war for the pro-life community is not over. A Senate battle is ahead and so is a potential battle to strip this language out of any eventual House/Senate conference committee but nevertheless what happened on Saturday in the House will go down as a HUGE victory for pro-life Americans.
Today is the feast of Saint Willibrord, a Benedictine, who is the patron saint of the Dutch.
He was born in Northumberland (northeastern England) in 657 and was educated at Ripon monastery and the Abbey of Rathmelsigi in Ireland. After he was ordained in the Benedictine Order, in 690, he set out with eleven companions for Friesland (a province in the north Netherlands).
In 692, he went to Rome and received his full approval for his missionary work from the pope. During his second visit to Rome, the pope consecrated him archbishop to the Frisians. In his work, Willibrord also received much support and encouragement from the Frankish leader; Pepin of Heristal.
Willibrord founded the monastery of Echternach, Luxembourg, to serve as a center of missionary endeavors, and extended the efforts of missionaries into Denmark and Upper Friesland. He faced chronic dangers from outraged pagans, including one who nearly murdered him after he tore down a pagan idol.
In 714, King Radbod reclaimed the extensive territories acquired by Pepin, and Willilbrord watched all of the progress he had made be virtually undone. When Radbod gained possession of all Frisia, Willibrord was obliged to leave, and Radbod destroyed most of the churches, replaced them by temples and shrines to the idols, and killed many of the missionaries.
After Radbod's death, Willibrord started over with great enthusiasm, receiving invaluable assistance, from St. Boniface. Willibrord died on retreat at Echternach on November 7, 739. He was buried in the oratory of this abbey, and after death was almost immediately honored as a saint.
-- Born in Arlington County. Raised primarily in southwestern Virginia, where he graduated from William Fleming High School in Roanoke. Also attended Arlington's Wakefield High School for a year.
-- U.S. Army psychiatrist.
-- Graduated from Virginia Tech in 1995, receiving a bachelor's degree in biochemistry with honors and minors in biology and chemistry. Had previously studied at Barstow Community College in California and Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, where he earned an associate degree in science in 1992.
-- Entered the Bethesda campus of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1997. Graduated in 2003 as a medical doctor.
-- From 2003 through last summer, was an intern, a resident and then a fellow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the District.
-- Transferred to Fort Hood this summer.
-- Enlisted in the Army after high school. Commissioned as a captain, he was promoted to major in May.
-- Was awaiting deployment to Afghanistan, which was to be his first Army service overseas.
-- Single with no children. No signs of physical or mental problems in examinations as recently as September.
-- Listed by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress as a fellow for disaster and preventive psychology.
-- As of Oct. 13, had less than a year of clinical practice.
-- Attended the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring and is devout, according to Faizul Khan, former imam at the center. Attended prayers at least once a day, seven days a week, often in his Army fatigues, Khan said.
-- Both parents dead, buried in Falls Church. Has two brothers: one in Sterling and the other in Jerusalem.
SOURCE: Army records and officials, Virginia high school and university officials, Uniformed Services University officials, Washington Post staff writers
KansasCity.Com reports the following:
Dr. Val Finnell was a classmate of Hasan's at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Both attended a master's in public health program in 2007 and 2008.
Finnell says he got to know Hasan in an environmental health class. At the end of the class, students gave presentations. Finnell says other classmates wrote on subjects such as dry cleaning chemicals and mold in homes, but Hasan's topic was whether the war against terror was "a war against Islam." Finnell described Hasan as a "vociferous opponent" of the terror war.
Finnell says Hasan told classmates he was "a Muslim first and an American second."
Relatives said he was terrified of a scheduled deployment to a war zone and had asked for a discharge. They and others said he was deeply opposed to fighting Muslims. He was called a loner by co-workers, allegedly referred to suicide bombers as brave heroes on a Website and reportedly once replaced a lecture on the treatment of soldiers with a warning about the horrible deaths awaiting those who don’t believe in the Qur’an.
Via WND: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama's transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document.
Police officials say after arriving at the scene of Thursday's gunfire, Sgt. Kimberly Munley saw the suspect and started firing at him.
Munley's boss, Chuck Medley, told The Associated Press on Friday that Hasan then spun around and charged at her with a gun in each hand.
Medley says Munley shot the alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, in the upper torso, allowing officers to take him into custody. Medley says in the exchange of gunfire, Munley was shot in the thighs and wrist.
The 34-year-old Munley is from Pennsylvania, used to be in the Army and is married to a Fort Bragg, N.C. soldier.
Munley, who worked as a police officer for five years in North Carolina where her father, Dennis Barbour, once served as mayor of Carolina Beach, is a talented shooter and member of the base's Special Reaction Team which trains for the possibility of events like Thursday's shooting rampage. She also is a passionate fan of Twitter and once news of her actions spread, her followers began to blossom in number — among them country singer Dierks Bentley who posed for a photo with the petite police officer at the fort's annual July Fourth FreedomFest. The photo is posted on her Twitter page along with a brief biographical quote: "I live a good life...a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully at night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life."
After reading several articles and watching these videos, I'm still not sure what really motivated the alleged murderer Nidal Malik Hasan to perform these horrendous acts -- was he stressed out to the max, was he terrified that what had happened to his patients might also happen to him, or was he indeed a terrorist? Why did he enlist in the Army in the first place if he didn't want to go to war? Why was he promoted to major? Why wasn't he investigated sooner than this with his history of problems? Who conducted his psychological evaluation in September? (They missed a few things.) What is Barack Obama's relationship to Nidal Malik Hasan? Why was he assigned to Homeland Security with his obviously troubled background? There are many unanswered questions, but there's one thing of which I am certain -- Sgt. Kimberly Munley is a true Americanhero and I thank God for her courage. If she had not been there, who knows how many more casualties there might have been.
My heart and prayers go out to all the victims and their families in this sad and tragic event.
St. Jean-Théophane Vénard is one of the Martyrs of Vietnam. He was born in 1829 France and was raised in a pious family. He was ordained for the missions in 1852 and worked for 15 months in Hong Kong, before being transferred to Vietnam.
Christians in the area were being persecuted by the ruler Minh-Menh, and just before Fr. Jean-Théophane’s arrival, clergy were forced into hiding. For four years, Fr. Jean-Théophane took great risks by hiding during the daytime and ministering to the people by night. He was eventually betrayed by a parishioner and arrested on Nov. 20, 1860.
He was tried and told his life would be saved if he renounced his faith, but he refused. He was kept in a cage for several weeks, during which he wrote joyful letters to his family.
“We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time: some a little sooner, some a little later,” he wrote to his father in France. “Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu.”
St. Jean-Théophane Vénard was beheaded Feb. 2, 1861. The Vietnamese authorities stuck his head on a pole to serve as a warning to others. Later, his severed head was recovered and is preserved as a relic in Vietnam. The rest of his body rests in the crypt of the Missions Etrangères in Paris.
“We hope and pray that our soldiers do not die on the battlefields. Then something like this happens on one of our bases by a fellow soldier."
“What happened today is a tragedy. Our prayers are with those who are affected and their families, and I pray for comfort and healing of those who were shot."
~The Catholic Bishop of Beaumont, Texas, Curtis Guillory, commenting on on the tragedy at Ft. Hood today.
Pro-abortion Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Ca.) is planning to try to ram the massive health care bill (H.R. 3962, previously H.R. 3200) through the U.S. House of Representatives this week. The most critical roll call will occur on a procedural vote — called “the Rule” — that is expected to occur late on Friday, November 6, or Saturday, November 7.
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For those who might be a bit confused about what to ask your representative to do, here it is in layman's terms:
Vote NO on Pelosi's "closed rule" or else the Stupak amendment can never be voted on. If the Stupak amendment is voted on then it is likely that it will pass. Vote NO on the closed rule. Vote YES on the Stupak amendment.
Today is the memorial of Blessed Simon Ballachi --1250-1319. Born to Italian nobility, Simon was trained in his youth to be a soldier. His family expected him to assume administrative responsibility for the estates, but, instead, he joined the Dominicans as a lay brother at age 27. Simon was assigned to care for the priory garden -- something he knew nothing about, but which he instantly loved, as working in the garden and cleaning around the priory allowed him the opportunity to meditate and practice humility. Simon was noted for his simple life, his strict adherence to the Dominican rule and his excellent work as a catechist to children. He was gifted with visits from St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Dominic, St. Peter Martyr, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Blinded at age 57, he was nearly helpless during the last years of his life, but he never despaired, and spent the time in prayer. Simon died on November 3rd, 1319. He was beatified in 1817 by Pope Pius VII. Blessed Simon Ballachi is the patron saint of gardeners.
Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood director who quit a few weeks ago because she saw an abortion on ultrasound and also felt pressured to sell abortions was the subject of a discussion on The View on November 2. Notice how Joyce Behar doesn't have a problem with killing babies, but states that the "real immorality" is the profit made by the abortion industry. She then quickly denounces Planned Parenthood for making money off abortions. She is apparently unaware of the $1 Billion profit that Planned Parenthood has made for the past two years from performing abortions. Notice also how Barbara Walters comes to the defense of Planned Parenthood by saying, "Nobody wants to push an abortion." Do these women live in the same world that you and I live in? Let's pray that God will remove the scales from their eyes and that the Holy Spirit will open up their minds to the truth.
Several months ago, the leadership of the Sinsinawa Dominicans was informed that Sister Donna Quinn, OP, acted as a volunteer escort at a Chicago area clinic that among other procedures, performs abortions. After investigating the allegation, Congregation leaders have informed Sr. Donna that her actions are in violation of her profession as a Dominican religious. They regret that her actions have created controversy and resulted in public scandal. They are working with Sr. Donna to resolve the matter appropriately.
Congregation leaders offer the following statement on behalf of members of the Congregation. We as Sinsinawa Dominican women are called to proclaim the Gospel through the ministry of preaching and teaching to participate in the building of a holy and just society. As Dominican religious, we fully support the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding the dignity and value of every human life from conception to natural death. We believe that abortion is an act of violence that destroys the life of the unborn. We do not engage in activity that witnesses to support of abortion.
CHICAGO, Nov. 4 /Christian Newswire/ -- This morning the Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board and The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation rejected any further delays in enforcing the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act. One parent/step-parent or guardian must be notified when a girl 17 or younger wants an abortion. Illinois now joins 36 other states with similar laws.
"This is a great victory for Illinois families. Girls that face an unwanted pregnancy will be guaranteed access to the most important pregnancy crisis counselors: their parents," said Tom Brejcha, President and Chief Counsel, Chicago-based Thomas More Society. "We've fought this legal battle so that Illinois would join with the majority of the people in the nation who value parental rights and the well-being of their children."
"Elections are ultimately about turnout, and many of the results of yesterday's elections show that when there is an intensely motivated base, change can occur. That will be our theme as we initiate our political responsibility teams across the country to prepare for the elections of 2010 and to bring about an increase of motivated voters who will advance the culture of life in the voting booth. We are grateful to the many volunteers who registered voters and handed out voter guides in this election cycle."
By a 53%-47% margin, Maine voters have repealed a measure that would have legalized homosexual marriage in the state-- even though, in the words of the Associated Press, “the stars seemed aligned for supporters of gay marriage. They had Maine’s governor, legislative leaders and major newspapers on their side, plus a huge edge in campaign funding.”
The 40 Days for Life blog is reporting that Abby Johnson, the former director of the Bryan, TX, Planned Parenthood who quit her job earlier this month and is now a pro-life convert, will appear on The O'Reilly Factor Friday night.
You can read my previous post on Abby Johnson here.
When I read NBC's "Law & Order" was airing an episode last week "ripped from the headlines" of an abortionist shot in church, i.e., Dr. George Tiller, I, of course, anticipated the plot would not go well for pro-lifers. The most I expected was milliseconds of fairness with pro-abortion clichés ruling the hour.
My, was I surprised. I could have written that script. The episode wasn't even balanced. It was outright pro-life, not that I mind.
If you haven't seen the episode, you should. Sans commercials it is only 42 minutes long.
Briefly, the story begins with a pro-life renegade shooting a late-term abortionist in church. Detectives eventually find the shooter, portrayed as angry and not typical of the loving pro-lifers who routinely picket the abortionist's mill. Read the entire story here.
St. Charles Borromeo (1538 - 15840) is the patron saint of catechists and catechumens; his life and spirituality have inspired many religious orders. He is a leading figure in the Catholic reformation.
Charles was born in 1538 to an aristocratic and powerful family in nothern Italy. As the second son, he was destined for a career in the Church from an early age. He received the clerical tonsure at age twelve and was sent to the Benedict Abbey of Saints Gratian and Felinus for his education. He received a doctorate in civil and canon law at the University of Pavia.
When his uncle, Cardinal de Medici, was elected pope in 1559, as Pius IV, Charles was made cardinal of the at the age of 22, and then appointed administrator to the archdiocese of Milan while still a lay person and a student. Next, he was made the pope's secretary of state, papal legate to Bologna, the low countries, and the cantons of Switzerland and cardinal - protector of the Franciscans, the Carmelites, the Knights of Malta, and others. He played a major role in the diplomatic efforts that led to the reopening of the Council of Trent in 1562, which had been suspended since 1552. He helped draft the catechism, missal, and breviary it produced. He was the mastermind in shaping most of the council's decrees -- and he was only twenty-six years old when it closed.
When his older brother died, Charles became head of the family, but refused to pursue the life this entailed (including marriage), and conferred this position on his Uncle Guido. Instead, he was ordained a priest in 1563, and was made Bishop of Milan the same year. He immediately set about reforming the diocese with great respect for those involved. He started seminaries for the education of clergy, founded a Confraternity of Christian Doctrine for the religious instruction of children, and encouraged the Jesuits in his diocese. He survived an assassination attempt in 1569, fed 3,000 people from storms during a famine, and set an example of personal heroism during the outbreak of the plague in 1576, organizing care of the sick, burial of the dead, and feeding of the population. His simplicity, piety, generosity, and self-sacrifice during this time, made him beloved by his flock. Exhausted, he died at the age of 46.
Patron: Against ulcers; apple orchards; bishops; catechists; catechumens; colic; intestinal disorders; diocese of Monterey, California; seminarians; spiritual directors; spiritual leaders; starch makers; stomach diseases.
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If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor. -
A Massachusetts man has been fired from his sales position at the Logan Airport branch in Boston of Brookstone allegedly for telling a female manager that his Christian faith says homosexuality is wrong.
Peter Vadala was fired and the company says he violated a tolerance policy. But Vadala reports his dismissal came because he expressed his Christian view of homosexuality after a female manager made repeated references as she approached him four times duringwork hours to her plans to marry her lesbian partner.
Today is the optional memorial of St. Martin de Porres, the first black American Saint. He was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a young freed slave woman from Panama, who may have been black or of Indian blood. His father was repelled by the darkness of his son's skin at birth and abandoned him, leaving the child-raising to his mother.
At age 12, Martin was apprenticed to a "surgeon," at that time a combination of barber, druggist, physician and surgeon. Once trained, he began to use his skills to serve the poor. At fifteen, he became a lay brother at the Dominican Friary in Lima, where he worked as a barber, a farm laborer, a clothier, and a care-giver for the sick. Each day Martin distributed food to the hungry, he was doctor to the sick, and he helped to establish an orphanage and a hospice for abandoned babies.
Martin devoted himself to severe penances. In turn, God endowed him with many graces and an abundance of spiritual gifts: visions, ecstasies, bi-location (being two places at the same time), healing, and supernatural understanding.
Martin's kindness and his love of prayer and humility helped him become friends with many people from all social classes, which enabled him to alleviate the sufferings of many. His popularity allowed him to use all of his extraordinary gifts to serve the poor and to work diligently to promote their cause. Thus, he was nicknamed 'Martin of Charity'.
St. Martin's love was shown equally to humans and to animals, including mice. Like St. Francis, Martin treated animals as brothers and sisters and they did whatever he told them to do. He maintained a hospital for cats and dogs at his sister's house. A close friend of St. Rose of Lima, Martin died in 1639 and was canonized in 1962.
St. Martin de Porres is the patron saint of: African Americans, barbers; bi-racial people; hair stylists; hairdressers; hotel-keepers; innkeepers; inter-racial justice; mixed-race people; paupers; Peru; poor people; public education; public health; public schools; race relations; racial harmony; social justice; state schools; television.
Prayer to St. Martin de Porres
To you Saint Martin de Porres we prayerfully lift up our hearts filled with serene confidence and devotion. Mindful of your unbounded and helpful charity to all levels of society and also of your meekness and humility of heart, we offer our petitions to you. Pour out upon our families the precious gifts of your solicitous and generous intercession; show to the people of every race and every color the paths of unity and of justice; implore from our Father in heaven the coming of his kingdom, so that through mutual benevolence in God men may increase the fruits of grace and merit the rewards of eternal life. Amen.
Legend has it that if you pray to St. Martin and see a mouse in an unusual place on his feast day, you will receive an answer to a prayer, so I am sending a mouse your way today ..... along with a cute frog, too.
Josh Brahm's latest edition of Science Matters is not only hysterical and well done, it is also good ammo to keep in one's back pocket the next time a pro-abort claims the product of the union of human sperm and human egg is not a human.
In this episode, Josh is sick of debating grade school-level biology with pro-choicers. If a pro-choicer meets Josh's challenge at the end, he says he will shut down his YouTube channel, currently the 4th most subscribed pro-life channel on YouTube.
On October 30 Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards emailed a sigh of relief to followers that "every version of the [healthcare] bills out there... respects choice and expands access." Whew.
Then Cecile found out Catholic bishops had only the day before activated nationwide priests and parishioners to oppose nationalized healthcare unless it excludes public funded abortion, as described by the National Catholic Reporter, November 2:
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has sent bulletin inserts to almost 19,000 parishes across the country in an effort to urge Catholics to prevent health care reform from being derailed by support for abortion funding....
Stressing that “there is very little time to act,” Bishop James Conley, the Auxiliary Bishop of Denver, told CNA in an exclusive interview on Monday that now is the time for President Obama to prove his critics wrong and show them that he really meant it when he said abortions would not be funded in the health care reform bill.
Bishop Conley added, “If we don't demand honesty from our public officials and responsiveness to the serious concerns of the Catholic community, nobody will do it for us -- and we, our beliefs and our institutions will be the losers.” The full interview between CNA and Bishop Conley follows.
Let eternal light shine on them, Lord,
as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them,
as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful. -
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Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine,
cum sanctis tuis in aeternum,
quia pius es.
Requiem aeternum dona eis, Domine,
et Lux perpetua luceat eis,
cum Sanctus tuis in aeternum,
quia pius es.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Americans gathered outside the White House on Saturday and laid down in the street to form the number 71, representing the percentage of Americans who oppose taxpayer funded abortions in our nation's health care plan.
The group was part of the IAM71.org coalition, which has a multi-faceted campaign against tax-funding of abortions that includes a ground-breaking virtual protest that can be found at www.IAM71.org. The protest was led by coalition member Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition.
The protest came on the heels Speaker Nancy Pelosi's unveiling of the House version of the health care "reform" bill that specifically provides for the tax funding of abortions. Read the entire story here.
This is a powerful video, which speaks the language of American principles and our Founding Fathers:
Congressman Mike Pence released the following video, urging all Americans to rise up and let their voices be heard in regard to the Pelosi health care plan.
Let your voice be heard by going to the APIA action item at the American Principles Project Blog.
The leader of Planned Parenthood in College Station, Texas left her post after watching the ultrasound of an abortion procedure. Abby Johnson told reporters that Planned Parenthood changed it’s business model from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion.
Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson's life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure.
"I just thought I can't do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that's it," said Jonhson. Read the entire story here.
I have just learned of a nationwide webcast this evening, Monday, November 2 being put on by Stop the Abortion Mandate. This webcast will contain extremely crucial and time critical information regarding abortion and the healthcare legislation. I strongly encourage all of you to participate in this webcast:
Your attendance is crucial:
http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com/webcast
Seventy plus pro-life and pro-family organizations that make up the Stop the Abortion Mandate Coalition invite you to attend this urgent educational event.
Here are the details:
WHAT:Stop the Abortion Mandate Urgent Web Cast DATE:TONIGHT, Monday, November 2 TIME:9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific
Register now at:http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com/webcast
During the live webcast, you'll hear the latest breaking news from many nationally respected leaders.
Invited presenters include:
* DOUGLAS JOHNSON, National Right to Life Committee
* REP. CHRIS SMITH, U.S. House of Representatives
* MARJORIE DANNENFELSER, Susan B. Anthony List
* CHARMAINE YOEST, Americans United for Life
* KELLYANNE CONWAY, The Polling Company
* KRISTEN DAY, Democrats for Life
* DR. DAVID STEVENS, Christian Medical & Dental Associations
During the event, you will:
* Hear the LATEST UPDATES and news straight from our nation's capital
* Learn exactly how abortion IS mandated in the proposed health care reform bills
* Discover what YOU can do about it!
During the webcast, you will get the latest information straight from our nation’s capital…
Learn exactly how abortion IS mandated in the proposed health care reform bills…
On All Souls' Day, Roman Catholics commemorate and pray for the holy souls in Purgatory, undergoing purification of their sins before entering heaven. It is celebrated on November 2.
The theological basis for this feast is the doctrine that the souls which, on departing from the body, are not perfectly cleansed from venial sins, or have not fully atoned for past transgressions, cannot not yet attain the Beatific Vision, and that the faithful on earth can help them by prayers, alms, deeds and especially by the sacrifice of the Mass.
In the early days of Christianity the names of the departed brethren were recorded on tablets. Later, in the sixth century, the Benedictine monasteries commemorated their deceased during Pentecost. In Spain, there was such a day on Saturday before before Pentecost, at the time of St. Isidore (d. 636). In Germany there existed a ceremony of praying to the dead on 1 October. St. Odilo of Cluny (d. 1048) ordered the commemoration of all the faithful departed to he held annually in the monasteries of his congregation. From there, it spread among the other congregations of the Benedictines and among the Carthusians to various dioceses.
On this day, three requiem Masses are celebrated: one for the celebrant, one for the departed, and one for the Holy Father.
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the most precious blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
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