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All Souls Day
Praying for the souls of the faithful departed — a day of remembrance for the dead.
📅 November 2
✦ Why It Matters
All Souls Day commemorates the faithful departed believed to be in purgatory, still being purified before entering heaven. Catholics and some other Christians pray for their souls, believing prayer can help their purification.
✦ How It Is Observed
Mass for the dead, visiting cemeteries, lighting candles on graves, praying the Rosary for the departed, reading names of those who died in the past year.
✦ Sacred Text
“It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.”
— 2 Maccabees 12:46 ↗