Memorial Mass 2022
There will be a special Memorial Mass held on Wednesday, November 2nd at 7:00pm. This Mass is to honour the loved ones of our parishioners that have passed away this past year, even if their funeral was not at St. Maurice. Your loved one(s) names will be announced at the Mass and you will receive a blessed candle to take home with you. If you have not been contacted by our parish office, please call them at 613-224-1892 or send an email to office@stmauriceparish.com. Also, please feel to call me at 613-224-0284 or email at marycourchainesheridan60@gmail.com.
God’s peace and blessings,
Mary Sheridan
Liturgy Coordinator
Prayer for the faithfully departed, by St. Alphonsus Liguori
My God! I recommend to Thee the souls of my relations, my benefactors, my friends, and my enemies, and of those who are in purgatory on my account. I recommend to Thee the souls of evangelical laborers, of religious and priests, and especially of those who had charge of my soul. I recommend to Thee the souls of those who were most devout to the Passion of our Lord, to the Blessed Sacrament, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the souls who are most abandoned, those who suffer most, and those who are nearest to the entrance into paradise.
This passage from the bible helps to explain why we pray for the dead.
2 Maccabees 12:42-45
42 and they turned to supplication, praying that the sin that had been committed might be wholly blotted out. The noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened as the result of the sin of those who had fallen. 43 He also took up a collection, man by man, to the amount of two thousand drachmas of silver, and sent it to Jerusalem to provide for a sin offering. In doing this he acted very well and honorably, taking account of the resurrection. 44 For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. 45 But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he made atonement for the dead, so that they might be delivered from their sin.