Reflection for Wednesday,  31st Week in Ordinary Time  All Souls Day 

By

     Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar 

Today's Gospel Reading 


Luke 7: 11- 17 

Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.”

 Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

They were all filled with awe and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said. “God has come to help his people.” This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country. 

Today's Reflection

Loved Into Eternity

“See what Love the FATHER has Bestowed on Us.” The Halloween Combination of All Saints Day & All Souls Day, Reminds Us of the Reality of Death & Life After Death. 

These Days are a Sad Reminder that Our Bodies will One Day Give Out. Somewhere, Sometime, Sooner or Later, We will Experience the Startling Reality of Death. 

Then What? Is It All Over for the Individual? Nothing but Extinction, Absolute Silence, Darkness? Will there be No More Love, No More Joy, No More Laughter?

JESUS Says There is a Future. 

HE Walked Through the Doors of Suffering & a Violent Death to Come Back & Say There is Light, There is Love & Laughter & Rejoicing, There is a Life Beyond Your Dreams & Imagination. JESUS Offers Hope for Those who Strike Out when They Come to Bat in This Life life. 

What Does This Feast Ask of Us? 

Be Grateful for what U Have. 

Show Your Appreciation. How? 

See the Love that is There. 

See what Love the FATHER has Bestowed on Us!

Why Do We Pray for the Dead? 

It’s Based on the Kind of Belief & Hope Taught by JESUS HIMSELF. 

HE once Said: “All that the FATHER Gives ME will Come to ME; & One who Comes to ME I will Not Cast Out.” 

Today the CHURCH is Asking Us to Pray in a Special Way for All the Deceased, for All Those whom We Knew, but also for All Those who Died Without the News of Their Disappearance Ever Being Communicated to Us.

Prayerful Remembering

Today We are Remembering Those We Have Known & Loved — Family Members & Good Friends. Indeed, the Whole Month of November is a Time when We Remember Our Dead in a Special Way. 

As Christians, Our Remembering of Those who have Died is Always a Prayerful Remembering. We Remember Them Before the LORD. 

Remembering Our Departed Loved Ones Before the LORD, Praying for Them, is One of the Ways We Give Expression to Our Ongoing Communion with Them in the LORD. 

We Believe that They are With the LORD, & that the LORD is also With Us in This Life. It is that Shared Relationship with the LORD which Keeps Us in Communion with Our Loved Ones who have Died. 

In Praying for Our Loved One, We Ask the LORD to Bring Them to the Fullness of Life, as HE Brought the Widow’s Son to Life in Luke's Gospel. We also Pray in Thanksgiving for Them, Thanking GOD for the Gift of Their Lives & For All the Ways the LORD Blessed Us Through Them. 

Today, We Entrust Our Loved Ones who have Died to GOD. 

We Pray that They would Experience that Love to the Full.


Good Morning 

Have a lovely day 

Eternal Rest Grant unto Them O LORD. Let Their Soul Rest in Peace with YOU O GOD! Amen.

GOD Bless U