This month is set aside to remember in prayer our deceased relatives and friends. The Catholic Church designates Nov. 2 as “a commemoration of all the faithful departed,” but this commemoration continues throughout the month. If you have someone who has died who you would like the Marquette Community to pray for, please fill out the prayer request here. Names from these prayer requests will be placed on scrolls in baskets at the altar of St. Joan of Arc Chapel during the month of November.
What are ways to remember loved ones?
- Prayer: It is through prayer that we encounter the Risen Lord and know He is with us. In prayer, we do not pray alone. We pray as a member of the Body of Christ, which includes those on earth as well as those gone before us. In our prayer, we are in union with them.
- Thanksgiving: Those who have gone before us have shared their life, their love and their faith with us. In being grateful for them, we are invited to notice their fingerprints on our hearts and in our souls.
- Good works: As we are the hands and heart of Christ reaching out in sacramental ways to our brothers and sisters to serve, to heal and to respect, so we continue the good work of those who have gone before us by doing what they did in serving others.
