The new selected student academy committee represented the school on Thursday 2nd November at Mass for the Feast of the Holy Souls. Fr Brendan Carrick was kind enough to join us and celebrate this Mass with us.
All Souls’ Day commemorates the faithful departed. Through the month of November, Catholic churches will pray and remember those gone before us.
During the Mass prayers were said, as we remembered relatives of our community who passed away this year and previous years.
According to Catholic belief, the soul of a person who dies can go to one of three places. The first is Heaven, where a person who dies in a state of perfect grace and communion with God goes. The second is Hell, where those who die in a state of mortal sin are naturally condemned by their choice. The intermediate option is Purgatory, which is thought to be where most people, free of mortal sin, but still in a state of lesser (venial) sin, must go. Catholics believe that through the prayers of the faithful on Earth, the dead are cleansed of their sins so they may enter into heaven.
Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord; and let light perpetual shine upon them. May their soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.