Saint Vincent College

10/28/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/28/2024 13:41

Prayer requests for deceased to be offered during All Souls Mass in student chapel

LATROBE, PA - Saint Vincent College Campus Ministry will celebrate the annual All Souls Mass at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 2 in the Mary, Mother of Wisdom student chapel. All are invited.

Special commemoration prayers for the deceased will be offered at each Mass in November. To request prayers for deceased friends and family members, send their names via email to Fr. Maximilian Maxwell, O.S.B., C'07, S'14, director of campus ministry, at [email protected]. Please use "Names for All Souls" as the email's message line. Prayers also can be requested by entering the names of the deceased in the Book of Remembrance in the student chapel.

Saint Pope John XXIII attested to the importance of prayers for the dead in his book, "Journal of a Soul," in which he wrote, "To remember the dead in prayer gives me courage and joy in confident hope of joining them all again in the everlasting glory of heaven."

Mary, Mother of Wisdom student chapel