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Names of the Deceased
November, the Month of the Holy Souls, is right around the corner. Beginning today, and during the entire month of November, Our Lady of Fatima Chapel is accepting names of the deceased to be placed upon the altar for remembrance during every Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered throughout November.
The names of the deceased placed upon our altar will also be remembered during each Holy Mass offered at all of the SSPX-MC missions; wherever the Holy Sacrifice is scheduled to be offered by the Apostolate during the month of November.
The names of the deceased placed upon our altar will also be remembered during each Holy Mass offered at all of the SSPX-MC missions; wherever the Holy Sacrifice is scheduled to be offered by the Apostolate during the month of November.
Please send the names of the deceased you wish to be prayed for to:
By Email:
ourladyofatimachapel@gmail.com
By Postal Mail:
OUR LADY OF FATIMA CHAPEL
16 DOGWOOD ROAD SOUTH
HUBBARDSTON, MA 01452
ourladyofatimachapel@gmail.com
By Postal Mail:
OUR LADY OF FATIMA CHAPEL
16 DOGWOOD ROAD SOUTH
HUBBARDSTON, MA 01452
The Western tradition identifies the general custom of praying for the dead dating as far back as the Second Book of Maccabees 12:42-46. The custom of setting apart a special day for intercession for the faithful departed on November 2nd was first established by Saint Odilo of Cluny (d. 1048) at his abbey of Cluny in 998. From Cluny the custom spread to the other houses of the Cluniac order, which became the largest and most extensive network of monasteries in Europe. The custom was soon adopted in several dioceses in France, then spread throughout the Western Church. It was accepted in Rome only in the fourteenth century. While November 2nd remained the liturgical observance, in time the entire month of November became associated in the Western Catholic tradition with prayers for the departed; and the lists of names of those to be remembered being placed in the proximity of the altar on which the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered.
The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of Saint Odilo: A pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island. A hermit living there told him that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with purgatory, from which perpetually rose the groans of tortured souls. The hermit also claimed he had heard the demons complaining of the efficacy of the prayers of the faithful, and especially prayers from the monks of Cluny, in rescuing their victims. Upon returning home, the pilgrim hastened to inform the abbot of Cluny, who then set November 2nd as a day of intercession on the part of his community for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of Saint Odilo: A pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island. A hermit living there told him that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with purgatory, from which perpetually rose the groans of tortured souls. The hermit also claimed he had heard the demons complaining of the efficacy of the prayers of the faithful, and especially prayers from the monks of Cluny, in rescuing their victims. Upon returning home, the pilgrim hastened to inform the abbot of Cluny, who then set November 2nd as a day of intercession on the part of his community for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory.