As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so soon shall you be.
Take up your cross and pray for me!
FOR ALL THE DECEASED
By Thy resurrection from the dead, O Christ, death no longer hath dominion over those who die in holiness. So, we beseech Thee, give rest to Thy servants in Thy sanctuary and in Abraham's bosom. Grant it to those, who from Adam until now have adored Thee with purity, to our fathers and brothers, to our kinsmen and friends, to all men who have lived by faith and passed on their road to Thee, by a thousand ways, and in all conditions, and make them worthy of the heavenly kingdom. Byzantine Liturgy
PRAYER OF ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT
O Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory and for sinners everywhere -- for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home and in my own family. Amen.
Never go to bed at night without praying for the Holy Souls because by morning you might have joined them. Fr. Denis E. O'Brien, M.M./USMC
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Sarah Anne Walker
1/14/1966
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7/08/2006
"Pray For Me" |
Noland Bordelon
8/31/1929
to
9/07/1989
"Pray For Me" |
Roxanne Gniadecki
6/27/1976
to
6/25/2001
"Pray For Me" |
Elizabeth McBride
12/5/1900
to
9/6/1995
"Pray For Me"
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Fr. Denis O'Brien
10/8/1923
to
8/29/2002
"Pray For Me"
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Isidor Weinberger
12/30/1934
to
12/21/2002
"Pray For Me"
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Steve Irwin
2/2/1962
to
9/04/2006
"Pray For Me"
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Evelyn Boyle
5/24/1924
to
5/08/06
"Pray For Me" |
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Thomas Stanford Jr.
7/28/1941
to
8/18/2007
"Pray For Me"
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Karol Iwanicki
7/13/1939
to
9/4/2007
"Pray For Me"
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Dorothy Vera Iwanicki
(Dove)
9/1/1943
to
10/12/2000
"Pray For Me" |
Joseph L. Mathews
6/23/1926
to
6/1/2004
"Pray For Me" |
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Ann Lenore Hollacher
3/20/1942
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7/12/2004
"Pray For Me" |
Michael Roman Swietlicki
9/18/ 1913
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4/ 27/ 1990
"Pray For Me" |
James Norman Swietlicki
4/30/1953
to
3/ 1/1998
"Pray For Me" |
George Rudolf Swietlicki Sr.
6/12/ 1954
to
7/30/1999
"Pray For Me"
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Names of Iraqi War Casualties
"Pray For Us" |
Names of Afghanistan War Casualties
"Pray For Us" |
Clotine Davoren
8/17/1917
to
10/29/2008
"Pray For Me" |
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Requiem Aeternam
Eternal Rest grant unto them (him/her),
O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them (him/her).
May they (he/she) rest in peace.
In Latin:
Requiem aeternam dona eis (ei),
Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis (ei).
Requiescant (-at) in pace. Amen.
It is the traditional faith of Catholics that the souls in purgatory are not separated from the Church, and that the love which is the bond of union between the Church's members should embrace those who have departed this life in God's grace. Hence, since our prayers and our sacrifices can help those who are still waiting in purgatory, the saints have not hesitated to warn us that we have a real duty toward those who are still in purgatorial expiation. Holy Church through the Congregation of Indulgences, 18 December 1885, has bestowed a special blessing on the so-called "heroic act" in virtue of which "a member of the Church militant offers to God for the souls in purgatory all the satisfactory works which he will perform during his lifetime, and also all the suffrages which may accrue to him after his death" (Heroic Act, vol. VII, 292). The practice of devotion to the dead is also consoling to humanity and eminently worthy of a religion which seconds all the purest feelings of the human heart. "Sweet", says Cardinal Wiseman (lecture XI), "is the consolation of the dying man, who, conscious of imperfection, believes that there are others to make intercession for him, when his own time for merit has expired; soothing to the afflicted survivors the thought that they possess powerful means of relieving their friend. In the first moments of grief, this sentiment will often overpower religious prejudice, cast down the unbeliever on his knees beside the remains of his friend and snatch from him an unconscious prayer for rest; it is an impulse of nature which for the moment, aided by the analogies of revealed truth, seizes at once upon this consoling belief. But it is only a flitting and melancholy light, while the Catholic feeling, cheering though with solemn dimness, resembles the unfailing lamp, which the piety of the ancients is said to have hung before the sepulchers of their dead." Catholic Encyclopedia
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins and save us from the fires of hell;
lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy Mercy
Amen
