Tag Archives: All Souls

Your reports about your All Saints and All Souls Masses, indulgences

Posted on 3 November 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

All Saints was a Holy Day of Obligation.  All Souls is one of those days when people tend to flock to church even though it isn’t of precept.
This is also a time when we can gain plenary indulgences.
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Attention Bakers! Cool Catholic Custom Alert! Souling Cakes for All Souls

Posted on 2 November 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

“Soul soul for a souling cake
I pray you, missis, for a souling cake
Apple or pear, plum or cherry
Anything to make us merry …”

Here is a cool custom to boost your Catholic Identity Quotient for this super Catholic day, All Souls.
Someone … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Indulgences for the dead and visiting a cemetery

Posted on 26 October 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Your recent answer to a question about prayers and Masses for non-Catholic departed brings to mind a question some friends and I were deliberating over. With regard to the indulgences we can gain for the departed during the … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Requiem on Sunday

Posted on 22 October 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Father, is it ever allowed in the Extraordinary Form that a Requiem
Mass be celebrated on a Sunday?
Perhaps for a private Mass.  If I, for example, were to learn of the death of a friend, I wouldn’t hesitate to … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: candle ceremony during All Souls Mass

Posted on 3 October 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Our parish has a long standing tradition of remembering the souls of parishioners and/or family members who passed away during the last calendar year.  During the All Souls Day Mass family members of the deceased process one by … Continue reading →

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