Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Saturday, 2 November 2024

Allhallowtide.



The Church Triumphant.
The Church Militant.
The Church Suffering.
Illustration from UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
who reproduce Text and Illustrations from
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
1952 Edition, with the kind permission of
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.



“Allhallowtide”.
Available on YouTube at



All Hallows’ Eve (31 October), All Saints’ Day (also known as All Hallow’s Day) (1 November), and All Souls’ Day
(2 November) are referred to as Allhallowtide and are a time of honouring The Saints and Praying for all departed Souls.

The term “Hallow” means “Holy”. It is recited in 
The Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father, Who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name” (Mt 6:9).

Indulgences for The Holy Souls In Purgatory: The month of November is dedicated to The Holy Souls in Purgatory and is a privileged time to Pray for them. The Church Commemorates all her Faithful children, who have departed from this life, but have not yet attained the joys of Heaven.

Saint Paul warns us that we must not be ignorant concerning the dead, nor sorrowful, “even as others who have no hope . . . The Lord, Himself, shall come down from Heaven . . .
and The Dead, who are in Christ, shall rise.”


The Church has always taught us to Pray for those who have gone into Eternity. Even in The Old Testament, Prayers and Alms were offered for The Souls of The Dead by those who thought "well and Religiously concerning The Resurrection." It was believed that "they, who had fallen asleep with Godliness, had great Grace laid up for them", and that "it is, therefore, a Holy and wholesome thought to Pray for The Dead, that they may be loosed from sins."

We know that a defiled Soul cannot enter into Heaven. God, Lord of Mercies, grant to the Souls of Your servants and handmaids, the place of refreshment, the bliss of Eternal Rest, and the splendour of Your Light.
Amen.

From 1 November through to 8 November,
if we visit a Cemetery in a spirit of piety and devotion, and Pray, even just mentally, for The Dead, we may gain a Plenary Indulgence for one Holy Soul on each Day of The Octave (on the usual conditions). This special Indulgence is only applicable to The Dead. 

We can Pray any of The Raccolta Prayers: Numbered 582-600, [Editor: From Wikipedia: The Raccolta (literally, "collection" in Italian) is a book, published from 1807 to 1950, that listed Roman Catholic Prayers and other Acts of Piety, such as Novenas, for which specific Indulgences were granted by PopesIn 1968, it was replaced by the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, listing fewer specific Prayers, but including new general grants that apply to a wide range of
Prayerful actions. The Text was in Italian, with the Prayers given in Latin.] to accomplish this end, and especially
The Dies Iræ Sequence
(Raccolta: Number 587).


Using a Traditional Missal, one can Pray a number of the Prayers from the 2 November Mass or a Requiem Mass.

In The Catholic Bible (Douay Rheims), it is ideal to Pray
Psalm 129 “The De Profundis”. Also, on 2 November, we can gain a Plenary Indulgence for The Holy Souls by visiting a Church and piously Praying for The Dead, (One “Our Father” and “Creed” suffice), and fulfilling all the usual conditions
for a Plenary Indulgence.

The usual conditions for a Plenary Indulgence are:

1) Pray for the Pope (usually one Our Father one Hail Mary);

2) Worthily receive Holy Communion
on the day of the Indulgence;

3) Make a Sacramental Confession
within a week (before or after);

4) Be free from all attachment to Sin, even Venial Sin. A sincere and devout act of the Will to this end suffices. * If we fail in the usual conditions, there is still merit in our good Pious Act, but usually only amounts to a Partial Indulgence.

It should be noted that, according to Traditional Church Discipline and Practice, Fasting and Partial Abstinence are OBLIGATORY on The Vigil of Pentecost and ALL SAINTS DAY. To read more about what The Catholic Church Traditionally teaches on Fasting and Abstinence, visit this
Web-Site: http://www.fisheaters.com/fasting.html

NOVEMBER: DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS.

From Fr. Schouppe’s book, entitled “Purgatory”: “There is in Purgatory, as in Hell, a double pain - the pain of loss and the pain of sense. The pain of loss consists in being deprived from a time of the sight of God. It is a moral thirst which torments our Soul. The pain of sense, of sensible suffering, is the same as that which we experience in our flesh.” (p.32).


"Speaking in general, The Doctors [of The Church] agree
in saying that the pains are most excruciating. The same fire, says Saint Gregory, torments The Damned and purifies The Elect. “Almost all Theologians”, says Saint Robert Bellarmine, “teach that The Reprobate and The Souls in Purgatory suffer the action of the same fire.” It must be held as certain, writes the same Bellarmine, that there is no proportion between the sufferings of this life and those of Purgatory.

Saint Augustine declares precisely the same. They will be saved, no doubt, after The Trial of Fire, but that Trial will be terrible, that torment will be more intolerable than all the most excruciating sufferings in this World. Behold what Saint Augustine says, and what Saint Gregory, Venerable Bede, Saint Anselm, and Saint Bernard, have said, after him. Saint Thomas Aquinas goes even further; he maintains that the least pain of Purgatory surpasses all the sufferings of this life, whatsoever they may be.” (pp 33-34).

 Let us, therefore, offer fervent Prayers for The Holy Souls in Purgatory. Monthly Tridentine Masses are offered for all our Benefactors, who are also remembered in our Daily Prayers.
Deo grátias ! / Thank you !

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All Souls’ Day. 2 November. “The Liturgical Year”. By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.



“The Day Of The Dead”
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).
Date: 1859.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume 15.
   Time After Pentecost.
   Book VI.

“We will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.” [I Thess. iv. 13]

The Church today has the same desire as the Apostle thus expressed to the first Christians. The truth concerning the dead not only proves admirably the union between God’s justice and His goodness; it also inspires a charitable pity which the hardest heart cannot resist, and, at the same time, offers to the mourners the sweetest consolation.

If faith teaches us the existence of a Purgatory, where our loved ones may be detained by unexpiated sin, it is also of faith that we are able to assist them; and Theology assures us that their more or less speedy deliverance lies in our power.



Let us call to mind a few principles which throw light on this doctrine. Every sin causes a two-fold injury to the sinner: It stains his Soul, and renders him liable to punishment.

Venial sin, which displeases God, requires a temporal expiation. Mortal sin deforms the Soul, and makes the guilty man an abomination to God: Its punishment cannot be anything less than eternal banishment, unless the sinner, in this life, prevent the final and irrevocable sentence.

But, even then, the remission of guilt, even though it revokes the sentence of damnation, does not cancel the whole debt.



Although an extraordinary overflow of Grace upon the prodigal may sometimes, as is always the case with regard to Baptism and Martyrdom, bury every remnant and vestige of sin in the abyss of Divine oblivion; yet it is the ordinary rule that, for every fault, satisfaction must be made to God’s justice, either in this World or in the next.

On the other hand, every supernatural act of virtue brings a double profit to the Just Man: It merits for his Soul a fresh degree of Grace; and it makes satisfaction for past faults, in exact proportion to the value, in God’s sight, of that labour, privation, or trial accepted, or that voluntary suffering endured, by one of the members of His Beloved Son.

Now, whereas merit is a personal acquisition and cannot be transferred to others, satisfaction may be vicarious; God is willing to accept it in payment of another’s debt, whether the recipient of the boon be in this World or in the next, provided only that he be united by Grace to the Mystical Body of Our Lord, which is one in Charity.



This is a consequence of the mystery of The Communion of Saints, as Suarez explains in his treatise on suffrages. Appealing to the authority of the greatest and most ancient princes of science, and discussing the objections and restrictions since proposed by others, the illustrious theologian does not hesitate to formulate this conclusion, with regard to the suffering Souls in particular: “I believe that this satisfaction of the living for the dead is a matter of simple justice, and that it is infallibly accepted with its full value, and according to the intention of him who applies it.

“Thus, for instance, if the satisfaction I make would, if kept for myself, avail me in strict justice for the remission of four degrees of Purgatory, it will remit exactly the same amount to the Soul for whom I choose to offer it.”

Commemoration Of All The Faithful Departed On All Souls’ Day. On 2 November. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Sings “Litanei Auf Das Fest Allerseelen”. “Ruh’ In Frieden”. Franz Schubert.



who reproduce Text and Illustrations from
The Saint Andrew’s Daily Missal, 1952 Edition,
with the kind permission of
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.




“Réquiem op. 48”.
Gabriel Fauré.
Available on YouTube at


Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Commemoration: All The Faithful Departed.
   All Souls’ Day.
   Feast Day 2 November.
   [Celebrated on 3 November, if 2 November is a Sunday.]

Double.

Black Vestments.

The Feast of All Saints is intimately connected with the remembrance of The Holy Souls, who, detained in Purgatory to expiate their Venial Sins, or to pay the Temporal pains due to sin, are nonetheless confirmed in Grace and will, one day, enter Heaven.


The Litany for All Souls' Day
(starts at 03.48).
Violin and Piano by Schubert.
Available on YouTube at


Therefore, after having joyfully Celebrated the Glory of The Saints, who are The Church Triumphant in Heaven, The Church on Earth extends her maternal solicitude to the place of unspeakable torments, the abode of Souls who equally belong to her.



"Réquiem Aetérnam".
The Gradual
from The Mass for The Dead.
Gregorian Chant notation from
The Liber Usualis (1961), pp. 1808-1809.
Latin lyrics: The Alfred Deller Consort.
Available on YouTube at

“On this day,” says The Roman Martyrology, “Commemoration of All The Faithful Departed, in which our common and pious Mother, The Church, immediately after having endeavoured to Celebrate, by worthy praise, all her children who already rejoice in Heaven, strives to aid, by her powerful intercession with Christ her Lord and Spouse, all those who still groan in Purgatory, so that they may join, as soon as possible, the inhabitants of The Heavenly City.”



Nowhere in The Liturgy is more vividly affirmed the mysterious unity which exists between The Church Triumphant, The Church Militant, and The Church Suffering, and never is better fulfilled the double duty of Charity and Justice, incumbent on every Christian by virtue of his membership of The Mystical Body of Christ.

It is through the very consoling Dogma of The Communion of Saints that the merits and suffrages of The Saints may benefit others. Whereby, without infringing the indefeasible rights of Divine Justice, which are exercised in their full vigour after this life, The Church can join her Prayers, here on Earth, to those of The Church in Heaven, and supply what is wanting in The Souls in Purgatory, by offering to God for them, by The Holy Mass, by Indulgences, by the Alms and sacrifices of her children, the superabundant Merits of Christ’s Passion and of His Mystical Members.



“Réquiem Aetérnam”.
The Introit
from The Mass for The Dead.
Gregorian Chant notation from
The Liber Usualis (1961), p. 1807.
Latin lyrics: Schola of The Vienna Hofburgkapelle.
Available on YouTube at

Wherefore, The Liturgy, the centre of which is The Sacrifice of Calvary continued on the Altar, has always used this pre-eminent means of exercising, in favour of The Departed, the great Law of Charity; for it is a precept of Charity to relieve our neighbour’s wants, as if they were our own, in virtue of the supernatural bond, which unites in Jesus, those in Heaven, in Purgatory, and on the Earth.



The Liturgy of The Dead is, perhaps, the most beautiful and consoling of all. Every day, at the end of each Hour of The Divine Office, we recommend to The Divine Mercy the Souls of The Faithful Departed. In The Mass, at the Suscipe, the Priest offers the Sacrifice for the living and the dead and, in a special Memento, he implores The Lord to remember His servants, who have fallen asleep in Christ and to grant them to dwell in Consolation, Light and Peace.

Masses for The Dead are already recorded in the 5th-Century A.D. But, to Saint Odilo, the fourth Abbot of the famous Benedictine Monastery of Cluny, is due The Commemoration of All The Departed. He instituted it in 998 A.D., and prescribed that it should be Celebrated the day following All Saints’ Day.


“Domine Jesu Christe”.
The Offertory
from The Mass for The Dead.
Gregorian Chant notation from
The Liber Usualis (1961), pp. 1813-1814.
Latin lyrics: The Alfred Deller Consort.
Available on YouTube at


Through the influence of this illustrious Congregation (Cluny Abbey), the custom was soon adopted by the whole Christian World and it even sometimes became a Day of Obligation. In Spain, Portugal, and the formerly-Spanish parts of South America, Priests, in virtue of a Privilege granted by Pope Benedict XIV, Celebrated three Masses on 2 November.

A Decree of Pope Benedict XV, dated 10 August 1915, authorises the Priests of the whole World to do the same. [By this same institution, The Holy See granted a Plenary Indulgence “Toties Quoties”, on the same conditions as on 2 August, applicable to The Souls of The Departed on All Souls’ Day, to all those who visited a Church between Noon, on All Saints’ Day, and Midnight on the following day and Prayed for the Intention of The Sovereign Pontiff.]



“Dies Iræ”.
The Sequence
from The Mass for The Dead.
Gregorian Chant notation from
The Liber Usualis (1961), p. 1810.
Latin lyrics: The Alfred Deller Consort.
Available on YouTube at

The Church reminds us in an Epistle, taken from Saint Paul, that The Dead will rise again, and tells us to hope, for, on that day, we shall all see one another in The Lord. The Sequence strikingly describes The Last Judgement, when The Good will be for ever separated from The Wicked.

The Offertory reminds us that it is Saint Michæl who introduces Souls into Heaven, for, as the Prayers for the recommendation of the Soul say, it is he who is “the Chief of The Heavenly Host” in whose ranks men are called to fill the places of The Fallen Angels.


“Libera Me”.
A Responsory from The Mass for The Dead.
Gregorian Chant notation from
The Liber Usualis (1961), p. 1767.
Latin lyrics: Schola of The Hofburgkapelle, Vienna.
Available on YouTube at

“The Souls in Purgatory,” declares The Council of Trent, “are helped by the suffrages of The Faithful, especially by The Sacrifice of The Altar.” The reason is that, in Holy Mass, the Priest offers officially to God the ransom for Souls, that is, The Blood of The Saviour. And Jesus, Himself, under the elements of Bread and Wine, which recall to The Father the Sacrifice of Golgotha, Prays God to apply to these Souls its atoning virtue.

Let us, on this day, be present at The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass, when The Church implores God to grant to The Faithful Departed, who can now do nothing for themselves, the remission of all their sins (Collect) and Eternal Rest (Introit, Gradual, Communion), and let us visit the Cemeteries where their bodies repose [the word “Cemetery” comes from a Greek word meaning “a place where one rests in peace”], until the day when, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of The Last Trumpet, they will rise again to be clothed in immortality and to gain, through Jesus Christ, the Victory over Death (Epistle).

First Mass: Réquiem Aetérnam.
Second Mass: Deus, Indulgentiárum.
Third Mass: Réquiem Aetérnam.
Sequence: Dies Iræ.
Preface: Of The Dead.
Absolution: Libera me.

On this day, all Priests may Celebrate three Masses. If a Priest only says one Mass, The Proper of The Mass is that of The First Mass; the same if one of the Masses is sung (Missa Cantata), and the Priest may say the two others before or after The First Mass.



Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
“Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen”
(Litany for The Feast of All Souls).
(Joh. Georg Jacobi)
“Ruh’ in Frieden”.
(Rest in Peace).
Komponist: Franz Schubert.
Klavier: Gerald Moore.
1954.
Available on YouTube at


The following Text is taken from “The Liturgical Year”, by Abbot Gueranger, O.S.B., for All Souls’ Day, 2 November.

“We will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.” [Saint Paul, I Thess. iv. 13.] The Church today has the same desire as The Apostle thus expressed to the first Christians.

The truth concerning the dead not only proves admirably the union between God’s Justice and His Goodness; it also inspires a Charitable Pity, which the hardest heart cannot resist, and, at the same time, offers to the mourners the sweetest consolation.


“Absolve, Domine”.
The Tract
from The Mass for The Dead.
Gregorian Chant notation from
The Liber Usualis (1961), p. 1809.
Latin lyrics by: The Alfred Deller Consort.
Available on YouTube at

If Faith teaches us the existence of a Purgatory, where our loved ones may be detained by unexpiated sin, it is also of Faith that we are able to assist them; and Theology assures us that their, more or less, speedy deliverance lies in our power.

Let us call to mind a few principles which throw light on this Doctrine. Every sin causes a twofold injury to the sinner: It stains his Soul, and renders him liable to punishment. Venial sin, which displeases God, requires a Temporal expiation. Mortal sin deforms the Soul, and makes the guilty man an abomination to God: Its punishment cannot be anything less than eternal banishment, unless the sinner, in this life, prevents the final and irrevocable sentence.

But, even then, the remission of the guilt, though it revokes the sentence of damnation, does not cancel the whole debt. Although an extraordinary overflow of Grace upon the prodigal may, sometimes, as is always the case with regard to Baptism and Martyrdom, bury every remnant and vestige of sin in the abyss of Divine Oblivion; yet, it is the ordinary rule that, for every fault, satisfaction must be made to God’s Justice, either in this World or in the next.

“The Day Of The Dead”. Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).



“The Day Of The Dead”.
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).
Date: 1859.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Friday, 1 November 2024

Solemn High Requiem Mass For Officer Eric Talley. 29 March 2021. The Cathedral Basilica Of The Immaculate Conception, Denver, Colorado.



A Solemn High Requiem Mass for Officer Eric Talley. Celebrated on 29 March 2021 at The Cathedral Basilica 
of The Immaculate Conception, Denver, Colorado. 

Officer Eric Talley, 51, a member of the Boulder Police Department, was killed on 22 March 2021, when he responded to an active shooter situation at a store in Boulder, Colorado. 

Nine other people were also killed during the shooting. Officer Talley has been described as a man of strong Faith, with a great trust in the Lord and a strong devotion to Mary. 

He was a loving husband and father of seven children, and a great servant to his community. The Catholic Funeral Mass Celebrated for his Soul was a Solemn High Requiem Mass, Celebrated by Fr. Dan Nolan, FSSP. 

Other Priests of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, along with Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila (Archbishop of Denver), were in attendance. 

A Solemn High Requiem Mass is a Funeral Mass 
Celebrated in the Extraordinary Form (i.e., the Traditional Latin Mass) of The Roman Catholic Church. 

The Funeral Liturgy specifies that The Church “confidently proclaims that God has created each person for eternal life.” Moreover, “Christians Celebrate the Funeral Rites to offer Worship, Praise, and Thanksgiving to God for the life which has now been returned to God,” and to offer Prayers for the deceased and the consolation and hope of the living.

Available on YouTube

Sermon Of The Venerable Bede. Feast Of All Saints. Fourth Lesson Of The Second Nocturn Of The Vigil.



Illustration: SCHOLA SAINTE CÉCILE

Today, beloved Brothers, we Celebrate, with the 
joy of a Common Solemnity, the Feast of All Saints.

Their society rejoices the heavens, their protection 
consoles the Earth, their triumph crowns the Holy Church.

The more firm the profession of their Faith 
was in torment, the more brilliance they had in glory.

Because, as the violence of the combat increases, 
the honour of the combatants also increases. The various tortures of Martyrdom enhance the triumph, and more 
terrible sufferings have brought more delicious rewards.

Our Mother, the Catholic Church, spread far and wide throughout the universe, to whom Jesus Christ, its Head, taught by His example to fear neither outrages, nor Crosses, nor death, has become more and more strengthened, 
not by resistance, but by patience.

To encourage all these legions of illustrious athletes, thrown into prison like criminals, and to inspire them all to support the fight with the same ardour and equal courage, she inspired them with the holy ambition of a glorious triumph.

Sermon of Saint Bede the Venerable, Priest.
Fourth Lesson of the nocturnal Vigils of this Feast,
at the second Nocturn.

Solemn High Mass For The Feast Of All Saints. Church Of Saint-Eugène - Sainte-Cécile, Paris. November 2023.



English: High Mass for the Feast of All Saints.
Church of Saint-Eugène - Sainte-Cécile, Paris.
November 2023.
Français: Sainte messe de la fête de la Toussaint.
Available on YouTube

The booklet to follow this beautiful Mass can be found

Allhallowtide.



The Church Triumphant.
The Church Militant.
The Church Suffering.
Illustration from UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY,
who reproduce Text and Illustrations from
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
1952 Edition, with the kind permission of
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.



“Allhallowtide”.
Available on YouTube at



All Hallows’ Eve (31 October), All Saints’ Day (also known as All Hallow’s Day) (1 November), and All Souls’ Day
(2 November) are referred to as Allhallowtide and are a time of honouring The Saints and Praying for all departed Souls.

The term “Hallow” means “Holy”. It is recited in 
The Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father, Who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name” (Mt 6:9).

Indulgences for The Holy Souls In Purgatory: The month of November is dedicated to The Holy Souls in Purgatory and is a privileged time to Pray for them. The Church Commemorates all her Faithful children, who have departed from this life, but have not yet attained the joys of Heaven.

Saint Paul warns us that we must not be ignorant concerning the dead, nor sorrowful, “even as others who have no hope . . . The Lord, Himself, shall come down from Heaven . . .
and The Dead, who are in Christ, shall rise.”


The Church has always taught us to Pray for those who have gone into Eternity. Even in The Old Testament, Prayers and Alms were offered for The Souls of The Dead by those who thought "well and Religiously concerning The Resurrection." It was believed that "they, who had fallen asleep with Godliness, had great Grace laid up for them", and that "it is, therefore, a Holy and wholesome thought to Pray for The Dead, that they may be loosed from sins."

We know that a defiled Soul cannot enter into Heaven. God, Lord of Mercies, grant to the Souls of Your servants and handmaids, the place of refreshment, the bliss of Eternal Rest, and the splendour of Your Light.
Amen.

From 1 November through to 8 November,
if we visit a Cemetery in a spirit of piety and devotion, and Pray, even just mentally, for The Dead, we may gain a Plenary Indulgence for one Holy Soul on each Day of The Octave (on the usual conditions). This special Indulgence is only applicable to The Dead. 

We can Pray any of The Raccolta Prayers: Numbered 582-600, [Editor: From Wikipedia: The Raccolta (literally, "collection" in Italian) is a book, published from 1807 to 1950, that listed Roman Catholic Prayers and other Acts of Piety, such as Novenas, for which specific Indulgences were granted by PopesIn 1968, it was replaced by the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, listing fewer specific Prayers, but including new general grants that apply to a wide range of
Prayerful actions. The Text was in Italian, with the Prayers given in Latin.] to accomplish this end, and especially
The Dies Iræ Sequence
(Raccolta: Number 587).


Using a Traditional Missal, one can Pray a number of the Prayers from the 2 November Mass or a Requiem Mass.

In The Catholic Bible (Douay Rheims), it is ideal to Pray
Psalm 129 “The De Profundis”. Also, on 2 November, we can gain a Plenary Indulgence for The Holy Souls by visiting a Church and piously Praying for The Dead, (One “Our Father” and “Creed” suffice), and fulfilling all the usual conditions
for a Plenary Indulgence.

The usual conditions for a Plenary Indulgence are:

1) Pray for the Pope (usually one Our Father one Hail Mary);

2) Worthily receive Holy Communion
on the day of the Indulgence;

3) Make a Sacramental Confession
within a week (before or after);

4) Be free from all attachment to Sin, even Venial Sin. A sincere and devout act of the Will to this end suffices. * If we fail in the usual conditions, there is still merit in our good Pious Act, but usually only amounts to a Partial Indulgence.

It should be noted that, according to Traditional Church Discipline and Practice, Fasting and Partial Abstinence are OBLIGATORY on The Vigil of Pentecost and ALL SAINTS DAY. To read more about what The Catholic Church Traditionally teaches on Fasting and Abstinence, visit this
Web-Site: http://www.fisheaters.com/fasting.html

NOVEMBER: DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS.

From Fr. Schouppe’s book, entitled “Purgatory”: “There is in Purgatory, as in Hell, a double pain - the pain of loss and the pain of sense. The pain of loss consists in being deprived from a time of the sight of God. It is a moral thirst which torments our Soul. The pain of sense, of sensible suffering, is the same as that which we experience in our flesh.” (p.32).


"Speaking in general, The Doctors [of The Church] agree
in saying that the pains are most excruciating. The same fire, says Saint Gregory, torments The Damned and purifies The Elect. “Almost all Theologians”, says Saint Robert Bellarmine, “teach that The Reprobate and The Souls in Purgatory suffer the action of the same fire.” It must be held as certain, writes the same Bellarmine, that there is no proportion between the sufferings of this life and those of Purgatory.

Saint Augustine declares precisely the same. They will be saved, no doubt, after The Trial of Fire, but that Trial will be terrible, that torment will be more intolerable than all the most excruciating sufferings in this World. Behold what Saint Augustine says, and what Saint Gregory, Venerable Bede, Saint Anselm, and Saint Bernard, have said, after him. Saint Thomas Aquinas goes even further; he maintains that the least pain of Purgatory surpasses all the sufferings of this life, whatsoever they may be.” (pp 33-34).

 Let us, therefore, offer fervent Prayers for The Holy Souls in Purgatory. Monthly Tridentine Masses are offered for all our Benefactors, who are also remembered in our Daily Prayers.
Deo grátias ! / Thank you !

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The Feast Day Of All Saints. Featuring "Your Heart" by Chris Tomlin.



All Saints’ Day.
Featuring “Your Heart” by Chris Tomlin.
Available on YouTube

The Feast Of All Saints. Feast Day 1 November.



“The Church Triumphant”.
“The Church Militant”.
“The Church Suffering”.
who reproduce Text and Illustrations from
The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, 1952 Edition,
with the kind permission of
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.



All Saints’ Day.
Featuring “Your Heart”,
by Chris Tomlin.
Available on YouTube at


All Saints’ Day.
Featuring “Lifesong”,
by Casting Crowns.
Available on YouTube at


“Te Deum”,
by Domenico Scarlatti,
for The Feast of All Saints.
Available on YouTube at


“Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino . . .”
(“Let us all rejoice in The Lord . . .”)
(Introit for The Feast of All Saints).
Available on YouTube at

Text and Illustrations from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

The Feast of All Saints.
   Feast Day 1 November.

Double of The First-Class
   with an Octave.

White Vestments.

The temple of Agrippa was dedicated, under Augustus, to all the pagan gods, hence its name of "Pantheon". Under Emperor Phocas, between 607 A.D. and 610 A.D., Pope Boniface IV Translated hither numerous remains of Martyrs taken from The Catacombs.

On 13 May 610 A.D., he Dedicated this new Christian Basilica to Saint Mary and The Martyrs. The Feast of this Dedication later took a more Universal character, and the temple was Consecrated to Saint Mary And All The Saints.


English: Basilica of Saint Mary And All The Saints
(The Pantheon (27 B.C.) - Piazza della Rotonda, Rome
Français: Le Panthéon (27 av. J.C.) -
Piazza della Rototonda (Rome).
Deutsch: Das Pantheon (27 v.Chr.) -
Piazza della Rototonda (Rom).
Español: El Panteón (27 aC.) -
Piazza della Rototonda (Roma).
Italiano: Il Pantheon (27 aC.) -
Piazza della Rototonda (Roma).
Photo: 3 October 2011.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)


English: 
Basilica of Saint Mary And All The Saints,
Rome.
Русский: Внутреннее убранство Пантеона.
Photo: 22 May 2011.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)


As there was already a Feast in Commemoration of All The Saints, Celebrated at first on various dates in various Churches, then fixed by Pope Gregory IV in 835 A.D., on
1 November, Pope Gregory VII transferred to this date the Anniversary of The Dedication of the Pantheon as a Church. The Feast of All Saints, therefore, recalls The Triumph of Christ over the false pagan deities. In this Church is held The Station on The Friday in The Octave of Easter.

As The Saints, Commemorated during the first three Centuries of The Church were Martyrs, and the Pantheon was at first Dedicated by The Church to them, The Mass of All Saints is made up of extracts from The Liturgy of Martyrs. The Introit is that of The Mass of Saint Agatha, used later for other Feasts; the Gospel, Offertory and Communion are taken from The Common of Martyrs.

The Church gives us on this day a wonderful vision of Heaven, showing us, with Saint John, the twelve thousand signed (twelve is considered a perfect number) of each tribe of Israel, and a great multitude, which no-one can count, of every nation and tribe, of every people and tongue, standing before the Throne and before The Lamb, clothed in White Robes and with Palms in their hands (Epistle).


Christ and Our Lady; The Blessed Battalions distributed in Nine Choirs; The Apostles and Prophets; The Martyrs, crimsoned in their blood; The Confessors, adorned in White Garments; and the chaste Choir of Virgins, form, as The Hymn of Vespers sings, The Majestic Court.

It is composed of all those, who, here below, were detached from Worldly riches, Gentle, Suffering, Just, Merciful, Pure, Peaceful, and Persecuted for The Name of Jesus. "Rejoice," The Master had foretold them, "for a great reward is prepared for you in Heaven" (Gospel, Communion).

Among those millions of The Just, who were faithful Disciples of Jesus, on Earth, are several of our own family, relations, friends, members of our Parochial Family, now enjoying the fruit of their Piety, adoring The Lord, King of Kings, and Crown of All Saints (Invitatory at Matins) and obtaining for us the wished-for abundance of His mercies (Collect).

Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino.
Creed. Is said.


All Saints’ Day.
Featuring "Your Heart",
by Chris Tomlin.
Available on YouTube
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