By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai, Nov 1, 2021: Sacred Scripture says, “It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins” (2 Mac 12:46). It is therefore fitting that the Church draws our attention to the value intrinsic in recalling ourContinue Reading
Rome , Nov 2, 2019 :Pope Francis celebrated Mass Saturday for the souls of the dead in Rome’s Catacombs of Priscilla, saying the place of a Christian is in the safety of the hands of God, whatever the outside circumstances might be. “The souls of the just are in theContinue Reading
By Purushotham Nayak Kandhamal, Nov. 2, 2019: Catholics of Kandhamal, Odisha, prayed for the victims of anti-Christian violence on November 2, the All Souls Day. Father Pradosh Chandra Nayak, vicar general of Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, led the Mass at Our Lady of Charity Church in Raikia. The areas had recordedContinue Reading
Panaji: The faithful chose to go green for All Souls Day, largely keeping away from plastic while decorating the graves of their loved ones. The appeal from the Archdiocese’s Caritas Goa and the Council for Social Justice and Peace to reduce plastic, circulated to all churches and chapels, was readContinue Reading
Mumbai: Today, you’ll see graveyards looking far more cheerful than they do the rest of the year. November 2 is All Souls’ Day, when the departed are prayed for. “I visit the graves of my parents and brother in Juhu,” says Mary Fernandes. “We get the graves cleaned, decorate itContinue Reading
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Guwahati: The small Catholic community in Guwahati, which is worried over an acute scarcity of burial place, will observe All Souls’ Day at the two cemeteries in the city on Monday. An estimated 3,000 Catholics in the city share the Navagraha cemetery with the Baptist community, where there is spaceContinue Reading
Mangaluru: Special delicacies, a cauldron full of hot water at home, cleaning of cemeteries and special prayers in churches. This is how coastal Christians observe ‘All Souls Day’, in memory of the departed souls, every year on November 2. All Souls Day which follows All Saints Day (November 1), isContinue Reading