Click here to submit names of deceased souls – Pontifical Requiem Mass, 11/2

Dear Friend,

This Saturday, November 2, All Souls Day, His Eminence, Raymond Cardinal Burke, will offer a Pontifical Requiem Mass live at 1:00 PM Central Time, from the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Everyone is welcome to attend in person or view online. Please save this link for the livestream: https://guadalupeshrine.org/mass-live-stream/

Please click on the red button below if you wish to submit the names of those who are deceased to be remembered in this Pontifical Requiem Mass.

The November 2 Pontifical Requiem Mass is the older, traditional, Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite that has been celebrated for centuries. 

Here are some interesting facts:

~ Only a Bishop, Archbishop, Cardinal or Pope can celebrate a Pontifical Requiem Mass.

~ Cardinal Burke will process in the sanctuary wearing a surplice and his religious clothing as a Cardinal, not yet fully vested for Holy Mass. A Cardinal's red skull cap will be worn and not a bishop's mitre.

~ Vesting will take place during the Holy Mass. Black vestments will be worn.

~ His Eminence’s hands will be ceremonially washed by four clerics. Gloves will cover his hands. 

~ When Cardinal Burke will be sitting and preaching, he will be on a chair called a “faldstool” which will be placed in the middle of the sanctuary. 

~ A Master of Ceremonies, clerics, deacons, subdeacons and altar boys will be present. 

~ An orchestra will accompany the Mass using Requiem compositions by Gabriel Faure.

~ A catafalque will be placed in the sanctuary, not far from the altar. It is a platform which can include an empty coffin or something that imitates the shape of a coffin, usually draped with a black funeral pall.  The catafalque is the symbol of the deceased whose body is not present. It will be flanked with six floor candelabras; three on each side. Cardinal Burke will say or sing the absolutions over the catafalque as His Eminence would over the body of the deceased.

If you have never assisted at a Pontifical Requiem Mass, please mark your calendar to either attend in person or view online, on November 2 at 1:00 PM Central Time.  Please save this link for the livestream: https://guadalupeshrine.org/mass-live-stream/

Let us ask our dear Lord, Who holds the keys of death and hell, to have mercy on those who have gone before us and grant them eternal happiness.

Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

Thomas McKenna

Founder and President

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
https://www.catholicaction.org/

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