Today is the fortieth day after my mother’s death. In our culture, it means something - having a prayer service. As to why, I’m not really sure. The only thing I can gather is because the 40th day after Easter is the Ascension, when Jesus ascended into heaven. I went scouring around the net and found this:

The fortieth day marks the end of the soul’s sojourns on earth where it visits the places and people it knew when it lived in its body and begs for prayer during this basic transition phase. During that time as well, the soul is shown heaven and hell as it prepares for the time when it will be assigned a place in the “forecourt” of one or the other until the Final Judgement when Christ will return again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

If I had known my mother was sojourning around earth all this time I would have looked out to say ‘HI’.

So tonight we’ll have a mass in her honor, and then go about our regular family New Year’s eve party at Marlon’s place.

A new year is coming, and so comes a whole new chapter in my life.

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! It’s back to the LBC for me tomorrow!

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