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Tag Archives: All Souls
ASK FATHER: Gloria and Creed for All Souls on Sunday?
From a reader… The Canadian Bishops’ official Ordo clearly calls for the Gloria and the Creed on Sunday November 2. (Along with a note warning that the Sunday celebration shouldn’t be too penitential because it’s the Resurrection.) But the Missal … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged All Souls, Creed, GIRM 53, GIRM 68, gloria
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8 Comments
QUAERITUR: Indulgences for Poor Souls, but cemetery is locked.
From a reader: I pass a Catholic cemetery to and from work every day (in fact, it is the diocesan cemetery where my spouse and I bought plots). I want to stop and say prayers for the souls in Purgatory, … Read More
POLL: Color of Vestments for All Souls
Here is a little poll about what you saw for the Mass you went to for All Souls. Yes, I know that it is not a Holy Day of Obligation, as All Saints was (in most places… if you didn’t … Read More
Omnium Gatherum: All Souls Masses where YOU are
2 November, All Souls, is around the corner. This solemn observance, while not a Holy Day of Obligation, has always aroused in the faithful a strong response and turn out. Many people have been asking me to post their parish’s … Read More
Your reports about your All Saints and All Souls Masses, indulgences
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. Let us … Read More
Attention Bakers! Cool Catholic Custom Alert! Souling Cakes for All Souls
“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 … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z's Kitchen, Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged All Souls, Catholic customs, soul food, Souling Cakes
13 Comments
13 Comments
QUAERITUR: Indulgences for the dead and visiting a cemetery
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 … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged All Souls, cemetery, indulgence, Purgatory
21 Comments
21 Comments
QUAERITUR: Requiem on Sunday
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 … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged All Souls, funerals, Requiem Mass
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11 Comments
QUAERITUR: candle ceremony during All Souls Mass
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 … Read More
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