How Was Your All Saints' Day Mass?

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Just got home from the 6:30 mass.

It was great, packed house, great homily. The priest mentioned using the Beatitudes in addition to the Ten Commandments when examining conscience. I really liked that.

We had incense and cantor with several songs a lot like a Sunday mass.

The best part was that the entire group really sang and put their heart in the responses. It was really nice to hear the room fill with voices.

We did not say/sing the litany of the Saints?!??

I thought it was required, but maybe not?

Does anyone know? I love that prayer and was bummed we did not have it.
 
I went to the 7:00 PM Mass and our two retired priests celebrated. Nice choir singing and chanting in English and Spanish. Quite a few people mostly young families and their kids.
 
I went to the 6:30 a.m. Mass. It lasted about 25 minutes. There wasn’t any music and our priest talks fast. We may have had about 50 people. The homily was about how we are saints in training. Our parish has 4 Masses on Days of Holy Obligation. The Mass in the evening has music and lasts an hour.
 
Nice evening in an older parish building. There was a lady in the back that sang really powerfully with an opera-esque voice. If only we all did that, eh?
 
mexolic said:
I attended the noon mass at my parish today. I think it was about 45 minutes instead of the usual Sunday hour mass. We didn’t have a cantor or choir today. I enjoyed it though.
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It was okay. I attended the 4:15 Mass, but I was sadly 5 minutes late, so I missed the opening hymns and about half of the First Reading. Thankfully the lector was very deliberate and slow in his reading, so I was able to semi-speed read and catch up.

The Second Reading really spoke to me, told me that I need to persevere in following The Lord despite the opposition of the world. The elderly Monsignor, who is my usual confessor but who does not usually celebrate Mass and whom I don’t really know personally, celebrated today and gave a somewhat dull homily, at least relative to the great ones the pastor usually gives. Oh well.

Overall, it was a very peaceful Mass, not spiritually elating but not fall-asleep boring. I enjoyed it and it made me think more on imitating the saints.
 
Aelred_Minor said:
Unfortunately we used our parish’s standard litany of the saints, including such figures as King Hussein, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi. Fortunately they cut it short and we didn’t get to Johan Sebastian Bach, which always makes me crack up.
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Well, those souls probably need the prayers since most people don’t think to pray for them. 😉
 
I’m also in RCIA and it was my first Holy Day of Obligation. It was a quiet Mass and the homily was great. Coming from a Protestant background, I’m not used to praying to Saints or for the dead and I’m finding it very comforting. This was also my husband’s first Mass with me and our baby girl, so it was special. We have never really had any family traditions, but since our little girl arrived, we are trying to introduce some for her. We had a delicious meal and then went to Mass. I’m looking forward to celebrating all feast days with our little family! I’m so thankful for the Church and all that it is coming to mean for us. God bless.
 
i went to mass and it was a little congregation really.only 15/20% full.

never the less,it was great.it always is.the priests homily was,he asked us to name three people who helped us to have the faith we have now… who are not saint either… who have passed away and no longer with us in this life… very thought provoking really.

it made me sit back and think of all the people who live and show their faith while living have a massive impact in our life… 👍
 
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Unfortunately we used our parish’s standard litany of the saints, including such figures as King Hussein, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi. Fortunately they cut it short and we didn’t get to Johan Sebastian Bach, which always makes me crack up. If you don’t laugh you cry I guess.

In all it was a strange but good mass by local standards.
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I would be out of there as fast as I could. In my mind (and conscience) this crosses the line into sacrilege.
 
Ours was 2 and a half hours long. Celebrated by a bishop. My classmates and I were installed as acolytes, and the class behind us as lectors. Music was a mix of choral and organ. I was really tired because we’re having 40 hours devotion here right now to coincide with All Saints’ and All Souls’, and my Holy Hour had been quite late the previous night. Had a sandwich and a nap after. All in all, not a bad day.

-ACEGC
 
glad that you asked. Went with friends and we tend to discuss the mass or homily afterwards over a cup of coffee. We attend, what I would consider to be, a middle of the road-slightly conservative church. The priest always gives short, succinct memorable homilies . It had fewer people in attendance than I remember. The music was meaningful . Then, without changing an iota of my facial expression, I listened to the litany of the saints list, over the speaker. "St. So and so, pray for us. St. So and so pray for us…Mahata Magandi (sp) pray for us. Martin Luther King, pray for us.
What is going on here? Help me, please Is there a genuine liturgical reason for these questionable names to be listed for request for prayers? Why these?
 
It felt like Heaven on Earth. Maybe because it really was Heaven on Earth.😃
 
jackjoe said:
glad that you asked. Went with friends and we tend to discuss the mass or homily afterwards over a cup of coffee. We attend, what I would consider to be, a middle of the road-slightly conservative church. The priest always gives short, succinct memorable homilies . It had fewer people in attendance than I remember. The music was meaningful . Then, without changing an iota of my facial expression, I listened to the litany of the saints list, over the speaker. "St. So and so, pray for us. St. So and so pray for us…Mahata Magandi (sp) pray for us. Martin Luther King, pray for us.
What is going on here? Help me, please
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Someone else posted this litany too. I can’t imagine that is in anyway endorsed by the bishop, let alone Rome.

Sounds like sacrilege!
 
Jimmy Akin of course has an answer regarding non saints in the litany.

jimmyakin.com/2006/11/litany_of_the_s.html

First, it’s prohibited by law. According to the Code of Canon Law,

Can. 1187 It is permitted to reverence through
public veneration only those servants of God whom the authority of the Church
has recorded in the list of the saints or the blessed.

Since the people who have died in your parish in the last year have not been recorded in the list of saints and blesseds by the authority of the Church (either of which listings requires the approval of the pope), they cannot be given reverence through public veneration. You can pray to them privately if you want, but not under church auspices. As the litany of the saints is a form of public veneration, including non-saints/non-blesseds in the litany of the saints is prohibited by law.
 
It was beautiful, as are all Masses. And my precious husband who is on RCIA went forward to receive a blessing for the first time.
 
JackJoe, I can’t reconcile that inclusion of non-Catholic figures (King Hussein, really!) to an otherwise parish that leans conservative. (BTW, I have never really gotten the “liberal”/“conservative” slant; for my way of thinking I question whether liberal Catholics are truly Catholic).
Anyway, I would definitely discuss this with your parish priest. If you point out that regulation mentioned, I’d be interested to see what Father has to say. We as a congregation should not just assume if something is okayed by a priest it must be all right. Surely, these lauded figures are international role models who should be admired; but they are NOT Catholic saints! It’s absurd to me to have them heralded on a list with our canonized heavenly community.
Sounds like a misguided attempt at ecumenism. But not Catholic kosher!
 
In RCIA, so this was my first holy day. I was expecting the litany of the saints to be said, but ours was just a regular mass? I thought there was a bit more to holy days. 🤷

I was amused though - there was an issue with the audio system, so the priest singing along with the choir was delayed about three seconds behind, creating a humorous dissonance that made everything unintelligible.

Went to the 7pm mass, and was surprised to see how many people were there on a Friday night. I enjoyed going, but I had hoped for something a bit “more” - I don’t know. Perhaps my expectations were too high, as I thought other holy days would be more like Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Christmas, etc. etc. This was just regular mass?
 
Aelred_Minor said:
He had us say the Nicene Creed instead of the Apostles’ Creed for a change, possibly just ignorant of how things are done in this parish. He used the First Eucharistic Prayer and even a little Latin (which I have never heard in this diocese) and even held his thumb and forefinger together after the consecration. Unheard of!

Unfortunately we used our parish’s standard litany of the saints, including such figures as King Hussein, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi. Fortunately they cut it short and we didn’t get to Johan Sebastian Bach, which always makes me crack up. If you don’t laugh you cry I guess.
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I’m glad I do not go to that parish. I think whoever is in charge of it would be glad of that too. I would not be laughing or crying…but I would not be silent either.
 
I was going to visit a church I’d been looking forward to seeing, but their online bulletin got the wrong morning Mass time, so I arrived much too early. I was able to come inside anyway and pray the rosary in the silence. While I was there (way in the back), the priest came out to pray Morning Prayer in front of the tabernacle, and he sang the hymn beautifully.

I ended up going to an evening Mass at my regular parish. During the prayers, the lector(?) said, “May God give us the grace to intimidate the saints. Um, to IMITATE the saints…” 😃
 
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