All Souls Day "continues" as we pray for the souls of our loved ones throughout the months of November. Aside from Thanksgiving, this is a fairly mournful month, including Veterans Day in the USA. We are approaching Advent and our Scripture Readings will be dealing more and more with "The Last Things", the end of the World, the Second Coming of Jesus, etc...We are starkly reminded of our mortality and the long hours of darkness don't help keep our spirits on a high level. The cycle of life is important to remember again, lest we delude ourselves with visions of man-made immortality.
However, we DO have some consoling words from the Scriptures which should keep hope alive, and even foster it, as well as bring us comfort: "I will restore you to health, of your wounds I will heal you." (Jer 30:17). "I will heal their defection,/ I will love them freely." (Hos 14:5)
This prayer too will help:
O God, our Healer and our Good, you sent your Son to cure the world's sickness by taking upon himself the burden of its guild. Heal the diseased vision that causes us to mistake evil for good heal the sickened mind that causes us to mistake selfishness for love; heal the unhealthy habits that we have made our own, so that we may stand before you, whole in body, soul and spirit, to sing your praise forever with all the saints, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Bro. Rene
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