How many dead souls occupy bodies that are still alive in today’s world? Should we not also pray for them on this Day of the Dead?

Newsroom (02/11/2021 09:46, Gaudium Press) Everyone is well aware – perhaps not under this name – that electronic products have a “programmed obsolescence”, which means that their useful life has a predetermined date on which they will stop working, become obsolete, and therefore “die”…

Well, after a digital device “dies”, what should you do? Automatic answer: throw it away and buy a new, better and newer one. If there is no way to resuscitate it, throw it away and forget about it!

God did not create disposable souls

The electronic products that are designed to make man’s life easier end up hindering man’s ability to understand supernatural realities, forming what we could call a “disposable mentality”.

This mentality has penetrated the conceptions that contemporary man has of himself, of his life, of his purpose, of his death, and of what will happen after his cold, stiffened body lies under the ground.

Does God have a final plan for each one? Has He created each one in the likeness of a plastic cup factory, so that after feeling served (or not) He discards them all without the slightest mercy or reward for their merits? Where do souls go after they are separated from their bodies? Heaven? Hell? What use are they to God?

Why does the Church celebrate the Day of the Faithful Departed?

On the Day of the Faithful Departed, the Church Militant offers prayers for those souls who, dying in the grace of God and in friendship with Him, had to purify themselves of their faults, change their own criteria, mistaken views and deformed mentalities that would prevent them from seeing the perfections of God in Heaven. These souls, on the day of the particular judgment, after having clearly seen their own miseries and defects, received from Our Lord the sentence of temporary purification in the flames of Purgatory. There they receive our prayers that their sufferings may be alleviated, or their time of suffering mitigated.

 Let us pray also for those who live in death.

Caring for the soul, for many, may seem like a waste of time. After all, it has no practical purpose.

Allowing himself to be carried away by the idea that life is a constant doing and working for profit, pleasure and worldly successes, a pragmatist with a disposable mentality will not have, and even less will he ask God for the strength to keep his soul in a state of grace.

His poor soul is unable to stay alive when immersed in sin, for sin is indeed the death of the soul.

How many dead souls occupy bodies that are still alive in the world today? Should we not therefore also pray for them on this day of the dead? To be more objective and clear: should we not pray for humanity today? Is it not, in general, neglecting its “own soul”?

The only ones who can neglect their life and their soul are men. God loves us with a divine love and does not want any of us to condemn ourselves. Until the last second of our earthly life He will be calling us, ready to forgive us.

How long will we be in this world? When will God call us? We do not know. What is certain is that there is a true “useful life”: it is the life of the soul.

By Cicero Leite

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