Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
First reading: 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14
Second reading: 2 Thes 2:16-3:5
Gospel: Lk 20:27-38
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
First reading: 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14
Second reading: 2 Thes 2:16-3:5
Gospel: Lk 20:27-38
Pope Francis celebrated the Mass with special prayers for the nine cardinals and 148 archbishops and bishops from around the world who died between Oct. 30, 2021, and Oct. 17 this year, including 14 bishops from the United States and four from Canada.
Pope Francis also encouraged people not only to visit the burial sites of their loved ones the following day, the feast of All Souls, but to go to Mass and pray for them as well.
The parish’s new grief ministry begins with a three-part speaker series in November with the theme is “Suffering, Grief, Grace.”
Among the challenges identified during the process of the Latin American church’s First Ecclesial Assembly were social and economic inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic.
For those teenagers and adults from across the United States in attendance, Franciscan Father Agustino Torres’ message Oct. 13 was simple, yet powerful: “The Lord has sent me to bless you.”
Pope Francis noted that there are millions of boys and girls around the world living “in conditions very similar to slavery.”
Pope Francis urged the young people not to be frustrated or put off by the fact that in their parishes “the community dimension is a bit weak,” something “which has been aggravated by the pandemic.”