{"id":24099,"date":"2008-11-14T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/benedictine-all-souls\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:31:40","slug":"benedictine-all-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/benedictine-all-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedictine All Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is a treasured monastic tradition to pray for the dead, to visit the cemetery and to recall<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/triumph%20of%20death.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/triumph%20of%20death-thumb-300x429.jpg\" alt=\"triumph of death.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>lives of those who have gone ahead of us to receive the Lord&#8217;s mercy. Some groups of monks have the custom of praying an entire Psalter for their deceased confreres, concluding each psalm with the verse, &#8220;Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.&#8221; Generally the Mass and private devotions are all that mark the day in many monasteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Mass offered today is offered for all the departed monks, nuns, sisters and oblates who persevered in their consecration under Saint Benedict&#8217;s guidance. After death, the monks, nuns, sisters and oblates buried in the monastery&#8217;s cemetery are not abandoned, not forgotten by their monastic family who remain on earth. The Mass, psalmody, and other prayers, like the rosary or particular litanies to effect in God&#8217;s plan their purification and obtain the beatific vision.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">O God, giver of pardon and lover of humankind, we beseech your mercy that through the intercession of blessed Mary ever-virgin, and of all the Benedictine saints, our brothers and sisters, relatives and benefactors who have passed out of this life, may be admitted into the fellowship of everlasting bliss.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a treasured monastic tradition to pray for the dead, to visit the cemetery and to recall lives of those who have gone ahead of us to receive the Lord&#8217;s mercy. 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