Happy All Saints Day

Have a wonderful Feast Day -- rest and rejoice.

ALL SAINTS DAY - As Catholics, we name our children after Saints. We bring them to be baptized in Catholic Churches that are often named for Saints. We honor them by veneration of their relics. We wear holy medals with their images and offer the petition, "Pray for us." Our homes are filled with holy cards, statues and paintings of the Saints. We turn to them for assistance, offering novenas. We profess our belief in the Communion of Saints when we recite the Creed. Among all the Saints to whom we offer devotion, Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, claims the most honored place.

Through the centuries, the Church has honored the Saints by naming many in the Eucharistic prayer and by celebrating their individual Feast Day, although there are simply too many of these holy souls to honor each individually. On November 1, the Catholic Church gives us a little help with The Feast of All Saints gives honor to each of them and all as a whole.


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