Upcoming Feast of All Souls

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One of my favorite liturgical days is fast approaching: the Feast of All Souls.

Do you, or does anyone you know, have anything special they do for this feast? Someone I know used to process through a cementery with his college schola, and they would chant Dies Irae. I don’t have any traditions yet. Kindly share.

Also, I do want to inform everyone who will be in the Cleveland, Ohio, area that, on November 3rd (the day after All Souls) my parish will be celebrating our first Solemn High Requiem Mass. We couldn’t have it on the 2nd because of a scheduling conflict.

If you’re interested in coming: St. Stephen Church, 1930 West 54th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, November 3rd, 6:30pm.

And here is my parish:
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I am new to Catholic traditions and this will be my first time around for all souls day. What is the meaning of this day? Would this be a good time to visit my Grand-Parents graves? Just to make sure they didn’t roll over because I am converting? 😃
 
In our diocese there is a mass said in each of the Catholic cemeteries.

There was an old custom of visiting several churches [if it was a set number I don’t remember it] and praying for the souls in Purgatory at each. I think there was a special indulgence available at that time; though that may have been abolished in the more recent revisions of indulgences. [When I was growing up the nearest church was 15 miles away; so we didn’t visit many churches. ;)]

It is a wide spread custom to visit, and pray at, the graves of ones relatives on All Souls day or during the following week. Since all my relatives are buried 3000 miles away this is impractical.
 
pandacordova said:
I am new to Catholic traditions and this will be my first time around for all souls day. What is the meaning of this day? Would this be a good time to visit my Grand-Parents graves? Just to make sure they didn’t roll over because I am converting? 😃
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All Souls’ Day is a day in which we specially commemorate and pray for the Church Suffering, i.e., the Souls in Purgatory. If you don’t know, Purgatory is the name given to the place in which souls not condemned to Hell, but still imperfect and not ready to be united with God in heaven…where those souls go to be cleansed. There is loads of information on Purgatory if you just do a quick search online.

As for the day itself, in times past (I’m not sure about current Canon Law) priests were given the allowance to celebrate three Masses on this day. The Masses are said in black vestments. These are Requiem Masses. Requiem means rest. Our Mass on that day will have a catafalque (sp?), which is a fake coffin, representing all the Souls of the Faithful Departed. After the Mass, the catafalque will be sprinkled with holy water and incensed in what’s called the Absolution. We hope that, by offering Holy Mass for the Faithful Departed, they may be released from the suffering in Purgatory and enter into eternal glory.

You may want to get acquainted with the following prayer:

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.

I believe there may be an indulgence for visiting a cemetery on that day, but don’t quote me on it.
 
For All Souls Day, November 2nd, there will be a Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass at 6:30 PM at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan (37th St. and Broadway). His excellency, James C. Timlin, Bishop Emeritus of Scranton will celebrate the Mass from the Faldstool. The Rite of Absolution with catafalque will follow the Mass.

The schola will sing the Ordinary of the Mass from Victoria’s Requiem Mass setting and chant the Propers of the Mass (including the sequence, “Dies Irae”).

You may enroll the names of the faithful departed to be included in the intention of this Mass at the Parish Office of the Church of the Holy Innocents.

Please note that those who devoutly visit a church or an oratory on All Souls Day and recite there the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed may gain a plenary indulgence but only for a soul in purgatory. (Handbook on Indulgences, pg. 48).

Source: hughofcluny.blogspot.com/
 
Magnum_V8 said:
I believe there may be an indulgence for visiting a cemetery on that day.
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There is, on any day between 1st-8th November inclusive, for visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead. As tbt said, it is applicable only to the souls in purgatory.
 
tbtcom1213 said:
For All Souls Day, November 2nd, there will be a Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass at 6:30 PM at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan (37th St. and Broadway). His excellency, James C. Timlin, Bishop Emeritus of Scranton will celebrate the Mass from the Faldstool. The Rite of Absolution with catafalque will follow the Mass.

The schola will sing the Ordinary of the Mass from Victoria’s Requiem Mass setting and chant the Propers of the Mass (including the sequence, “Dies Irae”).

You may enroll the names of the faithful departed to be included in the intention of this Mass at the Parish Office of the Church of the Holy Innocents.

Please note that those who devoutly visit a church or an oratory on All Souls Day and recite there the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed may gain a plenary indulgence but only for a soul in purgatory. (Handbook on Indulgences, pg. 48).

Source: hughofcluny.blogspot.com/
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Thanks for the info, definitely attending. 👍
 
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