Pope: Feasts highlight tie between living and dead
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Underlining people’s connection with those who have gone before them, the annual commemorations of All Saints and All Souls remind Christians that “we are never alone,” Pope Benedict XVI said.
“We are part of a spiritual fellowship in which a deep solidarity reigns” through the prayers of the living for the eternal repose of the dead and through the intercession of the holy deceased on behalf of those still living, the pope said during his Sunday Angelus address Nov. 1, the feast of All Saints.
On the Nov. 2 feast of All Souls, the pope paid an evening visit to the grotto of St. Peter’s Basilica where he knelt in silent prayer before the tombs of some of his deceased predecessors.
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