Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies Why We Pray for All Souls
Oct 30, 2025
Explore the significance of All Souls Day and the importance of praying for those in purgatory. Delve into the nature of the soul and why it matters, emphasizing how humans embody divine qualities. Bishop Barron critiques Platonic views on body and soul, presenting a Christian understanding. Learn about life after death and the presence of saints, as well as the necessity of purification. Discover practical ways to honor the departed through prayer and devotion, making this reflective time meaningful.
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We Are Embodied Souls
- Humans are a hybrid of earthbound bodies and a higher immaterial principle breathed into us by God.
- This embodied-soul view rejects both pure materialism and Platonic denigration of the body.
Soul As Form Explains Abstract Thought
- The Thomistic-Aristotelian view sees the soul as the form and organizing principle of the body.
- This explains human capacities to grasp abstract realities like numbers, justice, and truth.
The Soul Survives Physical Death
- The body returns to dust, but the spiritual dimension of persons survives bodily death.
- Therefore Christians rightly speak of souls existing in the presence of God after death.
