Today the Christians who have gone before us with the sign of faith motivate our prayers. When a person dies, there has perhaps been a trace of sin and is no longer able to do anything to deserve heaven; However, the living can offer their works for the deceased to reach salvation. Prayer and good works can help loved ones to get forgiveness and purification of their sins in order to participate in the glory of God. Due to the many activities of daily life, people often do not have time or care for those living with them, and it's easy to forget how it can be helpful to offer prayer for the faithful departed. Because of this, the Church has sought to institute a day, November 2, which is dedicated especially to pray for those souls who have left the earth and still not reached the sky.
Celebrate today: Difuntos.
View moreNext to the fountain of Holywell, Cambria, saint Winefrida, Virgin, venerated which is as eximia nun (s. c. VII).
Commemoration of saint Victorino, Bishop of Pettau (today Ptuj), in Pannonia, who drafted many writings to explain the books of the Holy Bible and was crowned with martyrdom in the persecution triggered by Diocletian (c. 303).
In Trieste, Istria, saint Justo, martyr (s. c. IV).
At Viennes, of Burgundy, saint Jorge, Bishop (c. 670).
In the monastery of Clairvaux in Burgundy, burial of Saint Malachy, Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland, who restored there the life of the Church, and on his way to Rome, in this monastery, and in the presence of the Abbot Saint Bernard, gave his spirit to the Lord.
Commemoration of saint Marciano, hermit, who, born in Cirrus, withdrew to the desert of chalcedony and there, living in a House very close, only in the afternoon ate a small amount of bread and water, but getting ahead of fasting brotherly love (s. IV).