November 8, 2020

Small Lived Experiences of the Faith
Based on Signs of Life by Scott Hahn

This Week's Focus:
November 8 (32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Theme:  Prayers for the Dead
Chapter in the Book:  40 (pages 255-259) 

Sunday Readings:  ENGLISH     SPANISH

Tami Maurer, Coordinator of Religious Education

Grades K-2
Activity:  Ways to Help Your Child Understand Our Obligation to Pray for Our Faithful Departed
Resource:  Printable prayer cards to color and read the "Eternal Rest" prayer while listing the names of family members & others you are praying for (SEE BELOW)

Grades 3-5
Video:  The Meaning of All Souls Day
Activity:  Ways to Help Your Child Understand Our Obligation to Pray for Our Faithful Departed
Resource:  Printable prayer cards to read the "Eternal Rest" prayer while listing the names of family members & others you are praying for (SEE BELOW)

Chad Grube, Director of Adult Faith Formation & Evangelization

“The Church’s tradition has always recommended prayers for the dead. The basis for this prayer of suffrage is found in the communion of the Mystical Body. As the Second Vatican Council stresses: "In full consciousness of this communion of the whole Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, the Church in her pilgrim members, from the very earliest days of the Christian religion, has honoured with great respect the memory of the dead" (Lumen gentium, n. 50). Therefore she encourages cemetery visits, the care of graves and prayers of suffrage as a witness of confident hope, amid the sorrow of being separated from one’s loved ones. Death is not the last word on human fate, because man is destined for endless life, which finds its fulfilment in God.”

        -- from Angelus of St. John Paul II on November 2, 1997

Resources

• Things alluded to in the Reading
  • The Mourner’s Kaddish (translation)
  • El Male Rachamim (sung)
• Other Resources
  • Eternal Rest Prayer in English & Latin
  • Office for the Dead
  • Purgatory, Indulgences, & the Practice of Visiting Cemetary’s by Kendra Tierney from Catholic All Year
  • Extending plenary indulgence in 2020
  • History & Explanation of Gregorian Masses
  • Susan Tassone with Fr. Mitch Pacwa on EWTN Live
• Things from FORMED
  • Grieving with Great Hope (VIDEO SERIES)
  • Death, Where is Your Sting by Regis Flaherty (BOOK)