Filipinos who are away from home and physically unable to go to church or visit their dead in cemeteries on All Saints and All Souls Day, can still visit undasonline.com to request prayers and masses for the dead.

The website also offers some catechesis on the significance and liturgical meaning of the celebration of All Souls Day or what we Filipinos call "undas."

CBCP Media Director Msgr. Pedro Quitorio said that Catholics are "encouraged to visit the tombs of their loved ones or also visit oratories, chapels and churches where they can pray for their dead."

Filipinos away from home who wish that prayers and Masses be offered for their dead can send the list of names of their beloved dead online by visiting undasonline.com

Sources

• Bishops' Conference of the Philippines
• Image: Undasdonline.com

Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, had been wrongly diagnosed as "brain dead" by doctors, but as mourners passed by her open coffin they were stunned when the supposedly dead woman suddenly woke up and started screaming.

"Her eyes were moving and we immediately rushed her back to hospital," said horrified husband, Fagili Mukhametzyanov.

"But she only lived for another 12 minutes in Intensive Care before she died again. This time for good."

"I am very angry and want answers."

"She wasn't dead when they said she was and they could have saved her", he told the Austrian Times.

A spokesman for the hospital, Minsalih Sahapov, said investigations were being carried out.

Source

• The Mail