You are connected to the dead and before long you're going to join them.

Father Hugh Barber helps you deal with that next.

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living,

understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. I am Cy Kelle at your host. I

always like talking to Father Hugh, but there's a particular joy that comes

with talking to him about what happens on the other side.

As Catholics, we celebrate two big feasts coming up, the Feast of all Saints and

all souls, and that gives us an opportunity to reflect on what happens when we die, how we are still connected to the dead now, and why it's actually a joyful prospect that we will join them in not too much time.

I know it feels like it's a long time away but not too much time

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Here's Father Hugh on The Feast of All Souls, the Feast of All Saints, and why these give

us a beautiful window into what awaits us on the other side.

All Saints and all Souls Day coming up, Father.

Yes.

If I may start with, this will be the one time of the year where the communion of Saints

will be preached on.

I don't, and as you pointed out to me before we started recording at the end of the

the Apostles Creed the communion of Saints. So can I start there with you what's what is the

communion and what does it mean the communion of saints and am I part of it?

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