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Nov 2, 2024 · All Souls Day. The Church, after rejoicing yesterday with those of her children who have entered the glory of heaven, today prays for all those who, in the purifying suffering of Purgatory await...
All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, [2] is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, [3] observed by Christians on 2 November. [4][5] In Western Christianity, including Roman Catholicism and certain parts of Lutheranism and Anglicanism, All Souls' Day is the third day of Allhallowtide, aft...
Oct 28, 2017 · Mass Readings for All Souls Day, November 2 2024. 1st Reading – Wisdom 3:1-9. 1 The souls of the just are in the hand of God and no torment of death will touch them. 2 In the eyes of the foolish, they seemed to die, and their departure was considered an affliction, 3 and their going away from us, a banishment. Yet they are in peace.
Nov 2, 2024 · 02 Nov 2024 – All Souls’ Day (Any Readings from the Masses for the Dead, Lectionary, vol. 4) 1st Reading: Isaiah 25:6-9 A vision of hope for the future, when God will restore his people to happiness On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a...
All Souls Day is a holy day set aside for honoring the dead. The day is primarily celebrated in the Catholic Church, but it is also celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and a few other denominations of Christianity. The Anglican church is the largest protestant church to celebrate the holy day.
Share. Pope Francis presided over Holy Mass in front of the chapel dedicated to “Risen Jesus” at Rome's Laurentino Cemetery on Saturday morning, 2 November [2024], the Commemoration of the faithful departed. Upon arriving, he paused briefly in the “Garden of the Angels”, an area of the cemetery where children are buried.
Nov 2, 2021 · It is a centuries-old tradition in Western Christianity to observe All Souls’ Day on November 2 by attending mass, offering prayers and sacrifices, and lighting candles to help ease the suffering of those who have died without having been saved and whose souls are believed to be in purgatory.
