What happens during the All Saints Mass?

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I was not quite at full communion yet at this time last year (had my confirmation at Christ the King) and had to work last November 1st and couldn’t attend. Is there anything special I need to know about All Saints Day?
 
Not really. There are all sorts of optional things your pastor or music director can do, to make the occasion more beautiful or impressive. But there isn’t anything much different about it as opposed to any other big Holy Day. It’s a holy day of celebration. Sometimes people do the Litany of the Saints, which is beautiful.

Now, All Souls’ Day on November 2 is a different kettle of fish. In the olden days, and in some traditional or ethnic parishes even today, it was the custom to put up a “catafalque” in church (a sort of show coffin, representing all the coffins of the dead). And the priest would say a Requiem Mass remembering all the dead, particularly those of the parish in the past year and those relatives and friends of people in attendance at Mass. But some parishes hardly do anything for All Souls’ Day or the other memorial days for the dead in November. You will have to ask around.
 
Where I am each parishioner is offered a pre-columned A4 sheet entitled:- ‘November List of the Dead - Prayers for The Holy Souls’. These are put into a file and the file placed on the altar every day; and each Mass offered up accordingly for all those names contained in the file.

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I was not quite at full communion yet at this time last year (had my confirmation at Christ the King) and had to work last November 1st and couldn’t attend. Is there anything special I need to know about All Saints Day?
All Saints Day will be more like a Sunday Mass than a typical weekday Mass

But other than that, anything special that happens will probably depend on the time of day and the individual parish.
 
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