This Saturday and Sunday, the Catholic Church celebrates the feasts of All Saints and All Souls day.

All Saints Feast Day- 1st November

On the 1st of November, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of All Saints.

• A saint is someone who the Church believes has died and whose soul is with God.
• All Saints day commemorates and celebrates the lives of all the baptised who have died and who lived a good life; those who have been canonised by the church, those whom we have known personally as well as those whose names we do not know.

All Souls Feast Day- 2nd November

On the 2nd of November, the Catholic Church celebrates The Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day).

• This feast celebrates the memory of all those ‘departed souls’ we have known and loved over the years; that they might pray for us and that we never forget God’s saving love and live lives worthy of it.