Prayer effects changes

(There’s that pesky little kid again.)

Many thanks to Andrew Junker, journalist for the Phoenix Diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Sun, for his email interview of your servant for the November 2 article entitled “Praying for the faithful departed: Church remembers the dead on the feast of All Souls.”

Mr. Junker includes this in his piece:

For Fr. Loren Gonzalez, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Peoria, the day is also an opportunity to catechize the living, teaching them that their relationship to the dead is more than mere remembrance.

“I preach on the efficacious nature of our prayer,” he said, noting that he reminds the faithful at Mass that prayer can effect actual change.

Fr. Gonzalez treats the All Souls Day Mass as a solemnity and places a list of the names of the departed his parish has buried near the Pascal candle and baptismal font.”

Visit The Catholic Sun Online for the entire article.