Good Morning Digital, Neighbors! Happy Sunday ADD Irregulars, Vagabonds of the WSN and all you Seekers and Wanderers at Padre’s. The last two days were a bit swamped with parish life and my morning post for All Souls never materialized. Stuff happens! Either way, the whole month in Cath-O-Landia is about praying for our Beloved Dead.
How about some quotes about death & dying to start your day. Death is inescapable, we will one day face our moment of passing. We will surrender ourself to the unknown hoping that we who believe are right about what lies beyond the silence and darkness of mortality. These days are not meant to be days of morbidity and fear but rather celebrations of life and remembrance. The celebrations are often a syncretistic blending Catholic prayers for the Dead during November with some of the Ancestor remembrance and worship found in many cultures. Honoring the past is as healthy for culture as it is for an individual. If you don’t learn to love your past and accept your story you will usually become possessed of resentment and bitterness about the failings of the past and its disappointments. We are not called to whitewash the past, but we want to see it as clearly as possible and learn even to love the difficult chapters and to have compassion for the broken episodes of life that most if not all of us have experienced.
