Tag: All Souls Day

We associate ghosts with Halloween, Oct. 31 — but that’s all wrong. We ought to look for them on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2, the feasts of All Saints and All Souls.

“To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” was a motto of Dorothy Day. How might we do that? Yesterday, the Church celebrated All Souls Day, praying for all the dead who

On All Souls Day, when the Church prays for those who have died before us, officials at Benedictine College shared the computer-rendered view of the future Raven Memorial Park on the College’s

 Edna St. Vincent Millay’s house. Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.

All Saints Day is one of my favorite feast days during the church year.  It reminds us that heaven is our destiny if we but choose to seek the Lord in sincerity