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All Souls (Commemoration of the
Faithful Departed)

November 2, 2025




Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, S. J.

A Fresh Surprise of Love

Afterlife? Let us face it, the culture of the Western world is filled with unbelief about afterlife. Some people say there is no such thing. As a popular song once put it, “If that's is all there is, then let’s keep dancing.”

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser, OMI

Against An Eternal Horizon

Unless we can somehow place our present lives against an horizon of an after-life that completes it, the punishing limits, daily inadequacy, and brute mortality of this world will eventually drive us to depression, bitterness, or violence.

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Our Beloved Dead

The problem is that, for us, our beloved dead are dead. They may be in a much better place; but we are still here, and they are not. We are like people who put their beloved friends on a train to a far-off place from which they will not return.

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

We Pray For Them All

What will it take for us to create a world in which we treat the living with as much respect and equality as we treat the dead?

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Death, Hope, and Life

Jesus promised eternal life to everyone who believes in him. Do your deceased loved ones have eternal life? Do you think God sometimes gives us signs that they are safe?

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A Poem
to Sit With

J. Janda


Compassion

is

God’s

Glory

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