All Ye Saints in Heaven
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Monday, November 01, 2010 9:00 AM
Today is the Feast of All Saints!
It’s a good idea to go to Mass today and soak up some of those saintly graces and favors, but because this feast happens to fall on a Monday, it is not a Holy Day of Obligation (for Catholics in the U.S.).
If you’re looking for a cute cupcake idea to celebrate today, try this saintly inspiration from Catholic Cuisine.
If you’d like to make a more traditional treat, you might try “soul cakes”:
“The old English custom of “soul-caking,” or “souling,” originated in pre-Reformation days, when singers went about on All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, November 1 and 2, to beg for cakes in remembrance of the dead.”
In addition to praying the Litany of the Saints today, try this prayer:
How shining and splendid are your gifts, O Lord
which you give us for our eternal well-being
Your glory shines radiantly in your saints, O God
In the honour and noble victory of the martyrs.
The white-robed company follow you,
bright with their abundant faith;
They scorned the wicked words of those with this world’s power.
For you they sustained fierce beatings, chains, and torments,
they were drained by cruel punishments.
They bore their holy witness to you
who were grounded deep within their hearts;
they were sustained by patience and constancy.
Endowed with your everlasting grace,
may we rejoice forever
with the martyrs in our bright fatherland.
O Christ, in your goodness,
grant to us the gracious heavenly realms of eternal life.
—Unknown author, 10th century (source)
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