Why we pray for our 'dear departed' ...

November is the time of year we dedicate time and prayer to the memory of our 'dear departed' as we say. And as Monsignor Peter Fleeetwood says :..."sometimes what you discover in preparation for funerals is the amount of guilt in people they often transfer to somebody else like the undertaker, the police, the nursing staff in the hospital or even the priest . We become responsible for the person who's died, but that's only a temporary thing, it's a shock reaction although I think the guilt persists sometimes .Then there's another much more common fact: simply missing people...you do get used to missing people but you never really get over it , you still miss them."...

In the course of this conversation Monsignor Peter gets asked why we should pray for the departed souls of our loved ones.

Monsignor Peter Fleetwood in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick .

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