Tag: All Souls Day
In the month of All Saints and Souls, treasure how close...
Walking around my neighborhood this fall, I saw many skeletons. Bones seemed to protrude from every lawn.
One evening, taking a walk in the encroaching...
It’s good to think about Purgatory in prayer and literature as...
"This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind."
The speaker is...
At World War II resting place in Italy, Pope Francis reflects...
ROME -- As the sun broke through the morning sky after a torrential downpour in Rome, Pope Francis was wheeled past dozens of gravestones...
Zombies, graves and autumnal gratitude: Effie Caldarola
It is a perfect fall day, the sun warm above us. A gentle breeze occasionally sends piles of fallen brown leaves scurrying across the...
In honor of All Souls Day, Pope Francis visits the French...
ROME -- The tombstones of soldiers killed in war cry out to people today to end all wars and to stop the production of...
Two Philippine dioceses close cemeteries for All Saints’, All Souls’ days...
MANILA, Philippines -- Two Philippine dioceses announced they would close cemeteries on All Saints' and All Souls' days for the second consecutive year due...
Say a prayer of gratitude in recalling all souls and all...
As I head down the hill for my evening walk, a giant full moon looms ahead. A harvest moon, this being a Midwestern October....
All Souls’ Day plans have weighted significance with so many having...
WASHINGTON -- The feast of All Souls' Day, when Catholics remember and pray for the dead, has weighted significance this year when so many...
COVID-19 brings new poignancy to All Souls Day in 2020
WASHINGTON — The feast of All Souls’ Day, when Catholics remember and pray for the dead, has weighted significance this year when so many...
All Souls’ Day: A day of prayer and remembrance for the...
If you were to walk past my parish on your dark and damp walk on the evening of Nov. 2 in years past, you...