ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 30 OCTOBER 2022, THE XXXI SUNDAY OF THE ORDINARY TIME

Liturgical calendar for the next week 

01 November, Tuesday, ALL SAINTS DAY 

02 November, Wednesday, ALL SOULS DAY 

03 November, Thursday, first Thursday of month 

04 November, Friday, saint Charles Borromeo, bishop, memory day, first Friday of month  

05 November, Saturday, first Saturday of month 

06 October, Sunday, XXXII SUNDAY OF THE ORDINARY TIME  

ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE 

On November 1, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of All Saints. With this Solemnity, the Church proclaims Her faith that the true goal of human life is eternity with God. Christ, the Savior of the world, by His Sacrifice on the Cross transformed the despair of death into the hope of eternal bliss. Saints are those who following Christ on His Way of the Cross, taking their personal cross on their shoulders, relying on the help of God’s grace, through many falls, repentance, constancy in faith, hope and love, passed through the “gates of death” into the bright Kingdom of Christ and now constitute the Church in the Glory of God – that new world in where is no more death, no decay, no pain, no tears. They are the inhabitants of this world, outside of time, outside of the concepts familiar to our dimension, the world in which God is everything in everything, the world in which the only driving force is Divine Love. This love unites us, the Pilgrim Church, with the Heavenly Church – with the saints who tirelessly intercede for us if we turn to them for help, who have already gone our way, and sympathize with our earthly sufferings and weaknesses and wish to help us.

The Solemnity of All Saints is an obligatory holiday. On this day, the Church calls on the faithful to remember their patron saints, read the litany to all the saints, and thank the Lord God for all the blessings and mercy that we have received through the intercession of the saints.

On November 2, having honored the glory of the faithful who are already rejoicing in the Kingdom of Heaven, the Church remembers all those who are in purgatory for their sins. To help them, the Church offers to the Lord God the prayers and indulgences received by the living faithful, and above all the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass. The commemoration of all the departed faithful was introduced by the Benedictine abbot in Cluny (France), St. Odilon in 998. Soon this custom spread throughout the Church

According to the tradition established by the Church, in the first octave of November – from the 1st to the 8th – the faithful are given the opportunity to receive a plenar indulgence for souls in purgatory, subject to visiting any cemetery during this octave, praying for the departed, receiving the Saints the Sacraments of Confession and the Eucharist and prayer in the intentions of the Holy Father.