All souls day

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…

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Podcast on the meaning of the Catholic feast on November 1 - what does All Saints Day teach us about who we are and who we are called to be?

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For those who don’t already know, in Italy, on November 1 and 2, people celebrate All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day with traditions varying by region.

From October 31st through November 2nd, a number of festivals, holidays and solemnities take place, all loosely related and revolving around remembrance of the dead. Halloween, Samhain, All Saints' Day, All Souls' Day, the Day of the Dead and other festivals trace their origins back to Celtic, Aztec, Roman and Christian traditions. Halloween is largely a secular observation these days, All Souls and All Saints remain mainly Catholic observations, and the Day of the Dead is still largely a…

ALL SOULS DAY – "May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace."

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…

All Saints’ Day is celebrated each year on November 1st and is a Holy Day of Obligation for Catholics of the Latin Rite. The following day, November 2nd, is All Souls’ Day. What are these? What is the difference between them? To begin, we really need to investigate the questions: what is a soul? And […] The post All Saints’ Day And All Souls’ Day: What’s the Difference? appeared first on Catholic-Link.