The eleventh month has been assigned as a time to pray for the beloved dead. Their souls anxiously await our requests for intercession for them. Often, we’re the only ones remaining who realize how important they were to us. Our prayers are thanksgiving for all they did for us, and for their eternal happiness.
We don’t want to forget them. We may be the only ones left who understand how important our deceased parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and others were who’ve helped us in so many ways. Once we’re gone, they’ll have no one else to ask God to bless their immortal souls. We should take advantage of Novembers’ annual opportunity to provide this, most lasting help of all.
Our prayers for the beloved deceased help to move their souls closer to God. That puts them in a better position to pray for we who remembered and helped them. So, our prayers for the dead turn into prayers for us, the living.
P.S. In that last sentence, I noticed that prayers are also pray-ers, which, one may suppose, is actually what a prayer is, a living being making a prayer. This ties in with the Catholic Fundamentalism theory that sometimes, words are a form of living thing.
