What are Catholics doing when we pray for the dead? Father Hugh Barber is next.

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

understanding, and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kelle at your usual host,

but we've got a guest host today, Chris Check,

in conversation with Father Hugh Barber.

Catholics, as we've said on an earlier episode this month,

pray for the dead all throughout November. So this time we asked Father Hugh

Barber to explain that practice to give us a better understanding of what the church believes about the

situation of the dead and what we're doing when we pray for them. Please

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You can give us that help by going to give Catholic. Now a little bit of praying for the dead. Welcome to Catholic Answers Focus, Chris Chek, sitting in for Cy Kellett, my guest, Father Hugh

Barbara, we are talking today about praying for the dead.

Oh Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, deliver the souls of all the faithful

departed from the pains of hell and from the bottomless pit

deliver them from the lion's mouth that hell swallow them not up that they fall

not into darkness but let the standard bear holy Michael lead them into that

holy light which thou didst promise of old to Abraham and to his seed.

We offer to thee, O Lord, sacrifices and prayers, do thou receive

them in behalf of those souls of whom we make memorial this day. Grant them a Lord to pass from death to that life which

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