All Saints and All Souls at St John Fisher Parish

All Saints’ Day is Saturday 1st November. This year, because the feast falls on a Saturday, the holy day of obligation is removed, but you are still strongly encouraged to come to Mass (the feast itself is not transferred to the Sunday in the old rite).

Mass at St William of York will be at 10am. There will be a children’s All Saints’ party afterwards.

(Image: a throng of ‘saints’ at St John Fisher Parish)

All Souls’ Day is this year transferred, due to the Sunday, to Monday 3rd November. On this day, priests have the privilege of offering 3 Masses, of which one is for all the holy souls, one is for the Holy Father’s intentions, and the third may be for any particular soul.

There will two consecutive Low Masses at St William’s, starting at 10am (the second will begin without any gap at roughly 10.35am). There will be a Solemn Mass in the evening at 7pm, with absolutions at the catafalque.

(Image: the catafalque at the FSSP church in Rome, Sanctissima Trinità).

by Fr SP