Thursday, Oct. 31: Vigil Mass for All Saints
6:30PM - St. Ignatius, Bobtown
Friday, Nov. 1: Masses for All Saints Day
8:00AM - St. Marcellus, Jefferson
12:15PM - St. Ann, Waynesburg
6:30PM - St. Hugh. Carmichaels
During our Church year, the Church universal celebrates one by one the feasts of the saints. Thursday, November 1, is the festival of all of God’s Saints, known and unknown, sung and unsung. All Saints Day calls to mind the glorious triumphant Church, of all nations and tribes standing before the throne in the sight of the Lord clothed with white robes and palms of victory in their hands, singing and praising the Lord of Life. Saints are our Christian models: men and women who lived the dynamics of the Eight Beatitudes; which are the blueprint of our Christian salvation. Please prioritize your weekday schedules and come celebrate God’s Saints. We all need the spiritual protection and intercession of all God’s Saints. Praise God in His angels and His saints!
All Saints Prayer
All Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Dominations, Principalities, and Powers, Virtues of Heaven, Cherubim, Seraphim, Patriarchs, and Prophets, Holy Doctors of the Law, Apostles, All you Martyrs of Christ, Holy Confessors, Virgins of the Lord, Anchorites and Saints of God, pray and intercede for us. Amen.
Video below: Father Mike Schmitz explains how the saints who have gone before us support us on our own journey towards heaven.
On November 2, the Church universal after celebrating with fitting praise all her sons and daughters who have already entered the glory with the Risen Christ in heaven, strives on All Souls Day by our powerful prayers, to help those of her children who are in the process of purification, awaiting the time of their being joined to the company of the blessed in heaven. Please keep in your prayers, hearts and minds this month of November All Poor Souls who have no one to pray for them.
REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US.
Video below: Father Mike Schmitz explains how Purgatory purifies the souls of the departed and how our prayers can help them.