All Souls: our dear departed

(Vatican Radio) Monsignor  Peter Fleetwood of the Archdiocese of Liverpool in England tells Veronica Scarisbrick  how the feast of All Souls is a time for remembrance as well as the natural reaction of sadness: “To have a special time in the year when you can dedicate time and prayer to the memory of your dear departed,” he remarks,  “...responds to a very deep need in all of us.”..“You do get used to missing someone but you never really get over it,” he adds: ...“I think the fact of the church adopting a day when Masses are offered for the souls of the faithful departed and in fact a whole month where such things happen is simply to recognise how real that need is and how important is to respect the name, the person, the mortal remains and the memory of those who have died.”

Listen to Monsignor Peter Fleetwood in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick: