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The Perspective of
Justice
All Souls (Commemoration of
the Faithful Departed)
November 2, 2025
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We have a wonderful tradition in Christianity of praying for
the souls of all the dead. Notice that we pray for all
the dead: “strengthen our hope that all our departed
brothers and sisters will share in his resurrection.” We don’t
separate the rich from the poor, or the black from the
white, or the male from the female; we don’t leave
out those who were criminals or had AIDS or were illiterate;
we don’t give special prayer privilege to the powerful
or the intellectual or the ecclesiastical.
This is All
Souls Day. We pray for them all. We wish them all eternal
life.
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? Why can’t we find a
way to be as tolerant of souls living in bodies as we are of disembodied souls?
| God, who has fatherly concern for
everyone, has willed that all men should constitute
one family and treat one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
For having been created in the image of God, “who from
one man has created the whole human race and made them
live all over the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26),
all men are called to one and the same goal, namely,
God Himself.
Vatican II, Constitution on the
Church
in the Modern World (1965) 24 |
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Now
published in book form,
To Love and Serve:
Lectionary Based Meditations, by
Gerald Darring
This entire three year cycle is available at
Amazon.com.
Copyright ©
1994, Gerald Darring.
All Rights Reserved.
Art by Martin Erspamer,
O.S.B.
from Religious Clip Art for the Liturgical
Year (A, B, and C).
Used by permission of Liturgy Training
Publications. This art may be reproduced only
by parishes who purchase the collection in book
or CD-ROM form. For more information go to:
http://www.ltp.org/
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