All Saints Day
The day we celebrate All Saints Day each year.
What is November 1st?
This is the day we celebrate All Souls Day every year.
What is November 2nd?
A person whom the Catholic Church has officially declared to be in heaven with God.
Who is a canonized Saint?
In order to be considered for Sainthood, this is the first thing a person must be.
What is dead?
This Patron Saint of Catholic schools, widows, and seafarers was born in New York City on August 28, 1774.
Who is Saint Elizabeth Anne Seton?
True or False - All Saints Day is always a Holy Day of Obligation.
What is True.
[From 835 A.D. until 1983 this was true regardless of the day of the week the solemnity fell upon. Today, if Nov. 1st falls on a Saturday or Monday, the obligation is often lifted, and the feast is celebrated on the Sunday (a day of obligation).]
True or False - All Soul's Day is a Holy Day of Obligation.
What is False?
This Carmelite nun, called the Little Flower, died when she was 24 but not before she wrote what would become one of the most treasured Personal reflection books in recent memory, "Story of a Soul".
Who is St Therese of Lisieux?
A day of prayer for the dead was set aside as a special day in this Biblical Book.
What is, the book of Maccabees?
The primordial concern of this holy pope was the integrity of the priesthood and the sanctity that followed from it.
Who is St. Pius X?
All Saints Day is often celebrated overshadowed the night before by Halloween, which used to be called this.
What is All Hallow's Eve?
Individuals for whom we pray on All Soul's Day, to help get them out of Purgatory and into Heaven.
Who are the Faithful Departed (all those who have died)?
He was the first canonized saint.
Who is St. Ulrich of Augsburg?
In 993, he was the first saint to be formally "canonized" by Pope John XV.
According to tradition, 1000 souls are released from purgatory every time this is said.
What is the Prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory?
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Prayer of St. Gertrude the Great
The Patron Saint of Athletes, this martyr was sentenced to death and shot with arrows but miraculously didn't die. When he recovered, he publicly denounced the emperor and was sentenced to death again.
Who is Saint Sebastian?
On All Saints Day, we commemorate and pray to these.
Who are the Saints, all those who are in Heaven with God?
The precursor to candy at Halloween, these were given to children who would go door to door saying prayers for departed souls of their neighbors.
What are soul cakes?
True or False: We worship Saints.
What is False. We venerate (honor) the saints and their relics, and ask them to intercede for us with God, much like you would ask a friend to pray for you.
Though not a canonized saint, he was a member of the preparatory commission for the Second Vatican Council but became a strong opponent of its heretical reforms.
Who is Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre?
He is widely considered the patron saint of discernment, offering a unique approach to making important decisions, also known for creating the spiritual exercises.
Who is Saint Ignatius of Loyola?
All Saint's Day was originally celebrated in this month but was moved to its current month of November in the 8th century.
What is May
Pope Boniface IV formally started what would later be known as All Saints Day on May 13 in 609 AD when he dedicated the Pantheon in Rome as a church in honor of the Virgin Mary and all martyrs.
That which may be gained for a soul by going to confession, receiving holy communion and praying at a cemetery on the 1st 8 days of November.
What is a plenary Indulgence?
The first canonized Saint of the New World, she was born in Peru and famously used to pray "Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart."
Who is Saint Rose of Lima?
This Patron Saint of Teenagers, refused to give in to the sexual advances of a neighbor, saying she would rather be killed than give in to him. The man who killed her eventually repented and was present at the canonization celebration for this Saint in 1950
Who is Saint Maria Goretti