Text Box: same order as an ordinary Sunday: 8.30AM(English); 10.30AMNovus Ordo Latin Mass and 12.30 - Extraordinary Form. ALL SOULS The Church has encouraged prayer for the dead from the earliest times as an act of Christian charity. "If we had no care for the dead," Augustine noted, "we would not be in the habit of praying for them." In the early Middle Ages, monastic communities began to mark an annual day of prayer for the departed members. In the middle of the 11th century, St. Odilo, abbot of Cluny (France), decreed that all Cluniac monasteries offer special prayers and sing the Office for the Dead on November 2, the day after the feast of All Saints. The custom spread from Cluny and was finally adopted throughout the Roman Church. The Council of Trent affirmed this purgatory state and insisted that the prayers of the living can speed the process of purification. These include public processions or private visits to cemeteries and decorating graves with flowers and lights. This feast is observed with great fervor in Mexico and Poland. In our church on that day we will celebrate 6 Requiem Masses: Monday Nov. 2nd: 7.00AM Extraordinary Form; 8AM English 10.30 Novus Ordo Latin Mass 12.00Noon and 6PM Extraordinary Form 7.30PM English There will also be celebrated a Memorial Mass at each Catholic Cemetery of our Diocese at 11.00AM, on Monday November 2nd. During the month of November, we will pray every day, 1 decade of the Rosary after Novus Ordo Holy Masses for all the faithful departed and a Novena (9 days) of Holy Masses will be said for their intentions. We sent letters to all our registered parishioners with special forms for these Holy Masses. Additional forms with a schedule of these Holy Masses are available at all church entrances. Please, write their names on the enclosed form, and send it back to the Parish Office. These forms will be inserted in the special Book of Remembrance that will be placed in the Chapel of Our Lady on the left-hand side of the Altar during the month of November. We will also say a decade of the Rosary every day after Holy Masses, for the same intentions. During the first 8 days of November, you can receive a Plenary Indulgence and offer this indulgence for the deceased. The doctrine and practice of indulgences in the Church are closely linked to the effects of the Sacrament of Penance. “An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian, who is duly disposed, gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the Saints. (Catechism of the Catholic Church. 1471) Text Box: An indulgence, applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory, is granted to the faithful, who devoutly visit a church or cemetery and pray, even if only mentally, for the departed. Conditions for Indulgences are as follows: Confession, Holy Communion, prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father: Our Father & Hail Mary. The indulgence is plenary each day from the 1st to the 8th of November; on other days of the year it is partial. REQUIESCANT IN PACE. TYPHOON, TSUNAMI, QUAKE: Agencies respond to four disasters in one week Catholic Relief Services, the international relief agency of the Church in the U.S., is mobilizing to respond to four major natural disasters that ravaged communities in the Philippines, Vietnam, Samoa and Sumatra last week. “These are our brothers and sisters who are in dire need,” said CRS President Ken Hackett. “We will do all we can to help.” After Typhoon Ketsana (known locally as Typhoon Ondoy) made landfall in The Philippines, Sept. 26, more than 80 percent of the capital city Manila experienced major flooding. More than 250 people died in the flooding and mudslides. Two days after dropping torrential rains in Manila, the typhoon hit Vietnam where more than 150,000 homes were severely damaged. Road washouts and mudslides have hindered emergency response efforts, CRS officials said. The following day an 8.3 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that washed over Samoa where residents lost homes and livelihoods to the 15-foot waves. Then on Sept. 30 a 7.6 earthquake struck the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. How to help: If you would like to help those people who lost everything; please place your donation in a collection box which is placed in the back of the church. Thank you for your generosity! You can also send donations for typhoon, tsunami and quake victims to Catholic Relief Services: Tel: 1-877-HELP-CRS     Online: www.crs.org Check: Catholic Relief Services; P.O. Box 17090. Baltimore, MD 21203-7090