Every soul needs spiritual encouragement. Even those who have died still need our help. With preparation like going to confession, today we can attend Mass and obtain a plenary indulgence to release a soul from Purgatory.
Alfred Cortot – Nocturne in E flat Major, Op. 9 No 2 (Chopin), HMV 1929
Special note from the creator of the video: In the days, when ghosts came back to earth and witches, skeletons, Elm Street Maniacs, bats and Frankensteins are running down the streets all over the Western world, from San Francisco to Berlin, Poland goes totally the opposite direction. These are the days of a thoughtful contemplation and memory by the graves of the family members or friends who are gone. All over the country, in little villages as well as in cities, by the solitary crosses commemorating somebody’s tragedy on the road or in crowded cemeteries, myriads of lamps begin to twinkle and glitter casting, through that wonderful misty air of the early Autumn, a reddish-yellow gleam onto the black sky, which keeps shining over the towns and cities until the dawning. It is the day as teaches the Catholic faith of joy brought by Saint Mary into the purgatory, where the sinners souls are waiting for their turn to join the eternal happiness in Heaven. And it is All Souls Day when many receive final dismissal of their sins. Now, they can take off, spread their wings and fly, singing, into that red-orange gleam of the sky above.
In the video clips are photographs of ancient Polish tombstones, which were miraculously saved through the Soviet rule and are still standing (formerly Polish, since 1945 in Ukraine).