Remembering our dead - what we do today, on All Souls Day - is a deeply mysterious event. It’s mysterious not simply because it is a direct engagement with something that all of us face and will face though we know nothing about what will become of us as such. But as well, it is an event we already are engaged in and have many intimations of “the next life” because we are engaged with it in memory of the deceased, in praying for them and in asking for their prayers for us. And in those acts, we are adventurously moving into an aspect of the next life before we have joined it.  But the more we move into that space and anticipate that transition and the more we engage with those who’ve gone before us to fuller life with God, the more real it all becomes.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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