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Hobbledehoy · « **on:** November 02, 2012, 05:06:50 AM »

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956), here are the Masses for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2012, 05:10:42 AM »

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956), here is the Preface proper to the Requiem Masses.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2012, 05:48:32 AM »

From the late Cardinal Schuster's work The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum): Historical and Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal (vol. V.; trans. Arthur Levelis-Marke & W. Fairfax-Cholmeley; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1930), here is a commentary upon the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** November 02, 2012, 06:05:53 AM »

Here is a commentary upon the Lessons of the First Nocturn at Matins for Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, taken from the tome Daily Breviary Meditations: Meditations for Every Day on the Scriptural Lessons of the Roman Breviary, in accordance with the Encyclical "Divino Afflante," vol. 4, written by His Excellency the Most Rev. Joseph Angrisani, Bishop of Casale-Monferrato, and translated by Rev. Father Joseph A. McMullin of St. Charles Seminary at Philadelphia, PA (New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1954).

Although these beautiful and edifying reflections were written for clerics, layfolk may gain exceeding great benefit therefrom.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 02, 2012, 06:14:20 AM »

From The Lessons of the Temporal Cycle and the Principle Feasts of the Sanctoral Cycle according to the Monastic Breviary: Compiled and Adapted for the Office of the Brothers of St. Meinrad's Abbey (St. Meinrad, Indiana: St. Meinraid's Abbey, 1943), here is the English translation of the the lessons of the Second and Third Nocturns at Matins for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #5 on:** November 02, 2012, 06:41:44 AM »

From the 1950 typical edition of the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, popularly known as The Raccolta (New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1957), here are some devotions and prayer in suffrage for the faithful departed.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** November 04, 2012, 10:23:00 PM »

From the celebrated work of Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes, The Liturgical Year: Time after Pentecost - Book VI (trans. Dom Laurence Shepherd; Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1949), here is an edifying commentary appropriate for the Month wherein the children of Holy Mother Church pray for the Poor Souls imprisoned in Purgatory.