On behalf of my priest friend who committed suicide the other day, I would like to say a word of very heartfelt thanksgiving for all the prayers and Masses offered for the repose of his soul. All the Holy Souls are grateful for our prayers, and pray for us, and will welcome us into the eternal habitations when it is our own turn to meet the Lord. And should those for whom we pray be in heaven already, know that there are a multitude of other souls who will receive the benefit of those prayers.
Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee! Hail Mary…
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
