In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord,

my guardian angel intercede for me.

In the month of November, the Church traditionally considers the topic of death in her liturgy, and especially on November 2nd,

which is the solemn commemoration of the faithful departed.

On that day, we pray for the dead who are not saints yet, who have not been celebrated

on November 1st, which is the solemnity of all saints.

On November 2nd, the church prays for all the faithful departed who have died and still need to be purified

from their sins in order to be able to see God ultimately.

When we consider the topic of death in our prayer, it is always a difficult topic, especially

if we have loved ones who have died, perhaps recently, and we experience the loss of their

presence.

We miss the way they used to smile. We miss the way they used to talk to us.

We miss their support or simply their presence, which was always there for us somehow.

You know, we can especially be more grieved if was always there for us somehow, you know.

We can especially be more grieved if the death of that loved one of ours was a very sudden thing, maybe through a car accident or a, um, an illness that came all of a sudden, and we were not expecting that.

Well, we grieve because it appears that they are gone, that they are dead, that they are no longer alive.

But the church, like a good mother, holding to the truth and the tradition

that she has always proclaimed from the very beginning is here to remind us that that is not true,

that there is life after death and that our loved ones continue to live

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