“…the Church invites us to commemorate all the faithful departed, to turn our eyes to the many faces who have gone before us and who have ended their earthly journey…during these days we go to the cemetery to pray for the loved ones who have left us, as it were paying a visit to show them, once more, our love, to feel them still close, remembering also, and article of the creed: in the communion of saints there is a close bond between us who are still walking here upon the earth and those many brothers and sisters who have already entered eternity.
“Human beings have always cared for their dead and sought to give them a sort of second life through attention, care and affection, In a way, we want to preserve their experience of life; and paradoxically by looking at their graves, before which countless memories return, we discover how they lived, what they loved, what they feared, what they hoped for and what they hated, They are almost a mirror of their
world.”
Saturday 2 November
2.30pm Prayer at Horsley Downs cemetery
3.30pm Prayer at Culverden cemetery
4.30pm Prayer at Hanmer cemetery
5.00pm Mass at Hanmer Springs
7.00pm Mass at Culverden
Sunday 3 November
8.00am Amberley
8.45am Prayer at Brackenridge cemetery
10.00am Cheviot
10.45am Prayer at Cheviot cemetery
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