Holy Family Parish

The communion of saints is a timely topic as November approaches, the month we celebrate All Saints (Nov. 1) and All Souls (Nov. 2) and...

Catholics are often challenged by other Christians to defend the Church’s teaching about the Communion of Saints. “Why designate certain...

The Church encourages us to hope and pray for all those we’ve lost. She asks us not to presume that anyone has gone straight to heaven or...

November 2, All Soul’s Day (and the first week of November), is the Church’s most earnest and concentrated time to pray for the dead. In...

The Catholic Church teaches that purgatory is a temporal state of purification that takes place after death for those who die in the...

Catholics believe that prayer as worship is something we give to God alone. But our prayer to saints is not worship: when we pray to...

MASS READINGS The final purification or purgatory Why pray for the dead? by Dr. Andrew Swafford Why we pray for the dead, by Dr. Scott Hahn