HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Oct 28, 20203 min read
Understanding the communion of saints, by Father Michael Van Sloun
The communion of saints is a timely topic as November approaches, the month we celebrate All Saints (Nov. 1) and All Souls (Nov. 2) and...
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HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Oct 28, 20206 min read
The Communion of Saints, by Paul Thigpen
Catholics are often challenged by other Christians to defend the Church’s teaching about the Communion of Saints. “Why designate certain...
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HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Oct 27, 20203 min read
Why We Pray for the Dead
The Church encourages us to hope and pray for all those we’ve lost. She asks us not to presume that anyone has gone straight to heaven or...
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HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Oct 27, 20207 min read
WHY PRAY FOR THE DEAD?
November 2, All Soul’s Day (and the first week of November), is the Church’s most earnest and concentrated time to pray for the dead. In...
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HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Oct 26, 202010 min read
PURGATORY
The Catholic Church teaches that purgatory is a temporal state of purification that takes place after death for those who die in the...
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HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Oct 26, 20204 min read
Why do we pray to saints?
Catholics believe that prayer as worship is something we give to God alone. But our prayer to saints is not worship: when we pray to...
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HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Oct 25, 20201 min read
November 2: All Souls, The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
MASS READINGS The final purification or purgatory Why pray for the dead? by Dr. Andrew Swafford Why we pray for the dead, by Dr. Scott Hahn
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