All saints day

All Saints Day, November 1st is one of the most important Christian days of the year. Articles on history, reflection, ideas, books, and activities.

All Saints is the feast honoring all of the saints of the Church. All Souls Day is the commemoration of all the faithfully departed.

Today’s Gospel: Matthew 5, 1-12a – All Saints’ Day Today is All Saint’s Day, a day Catholics celebrate because we have a basic understanding that there is a powerful spiritual communion between tho…

I originally posted this at Shower of Roses in 2008. This coming week, on October 31st thru November 2nd, the Church will be celebr...

Poland and Lithuania's All Saints' and All Souls' Day are much different than Halloween, though they share a similar time on the annual calendar.

All Souls days is usually forgotten by many due to being right after Halloween, on November 2nd. All Souls Day is a feast commemorating all of those who have died and now are in Purgatory, being cleansed of their venial sins and the temporal punishments for the mortal sins that they had confessed and atoning before entering fully into Heaven. So how do we teach this feast to our children? Death is not something a lot of people like to talk about, and some children just are not ready to…

~ I think it's easy, clicking around on the web, to get the idea that Catholic families are feasting almost all the time. It seems there is a "special" day weekly, if not more often. In reality, most families observe just a handful of days that are impo

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Today, Catholics celebrate All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Days on November 1st and 2nd. All Saints' Day Prayer Service and All Souls’ Day Prayer Service.