Father Michael Blog

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” W.B. Yeats

”Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” T.S. Eliot

… the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. Josef Pieper  

All Souls Indulgences
An indulgence, applicable only to the souls in purgatory, is granted to the faithful, who devoutly visit a cemetery and pray, even if only mentally, for the departed. The indulgence is plenary each day from the first to the eighth of November; on other days of the year it is partial. 

A plenary indulgence, applicable only to the souls in purgatory, is granted to the faithful, who on the day dedicated to the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed [November 2 {as well as on the Sunday preceding or following, and on All Saints’ Day}] piously visit a church. In visiting the church it is required that one Our Father and the Creed be recited. 

To acquire a plenary indulgence it is necessary also to fulfill the following three conditions: sacramental Confession, Eucharistic communion, and prayer for the intention of the Holy Father. The three conditions may be fulfilled several days before or after the performance of the visit; it is, however, fitting that communion be received and the prayer for the intention of the Holy Father be said on the same day as the visit. 

The condition of praying for the intention of the Holy Father is fully satisfied by reciting one Our Father and one Hail Mary. A plenary indulgence can be acquired only once in the course of the day.

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” C. S. Lewis
Are you and your friends on the path to holiness? Do you share a common love for Christ and a common desire to evangelize?

“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.” Viktor Frankl

“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
     “Hurt people..hurt people”…assume that behind every difficult person, there is a lot of hidden hurt!

“As the children grow up you feel that you are an example, a support for them; that even after you die your children will always keep your thoughts and feelings, because they have received them from you, they will take on your semblance and likeness. So you see this is a great duty.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thank you, mom and dad, for being that incredible example for me, and even though you have moved into the next life, I am still benefiting from it!

“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.” St. Mother Teresa