All Saint's Day Slides

1. Solemnity of All Saints November 1
Mr. Pablo Cuadra
Religion Class

2. What is All Saints’ Day?
 All Saints is a Solemnity
(feast) in honor of All Saints
known and unknown.
 This Solemnity is celebrated
on November 1.
 All Saints is also an ancient
Christian formula invoking
all the Saints known or
unknown.

3. All Saints’ Day
 In the early Church, an all
night vigil was celebrated
on the anniversary of a
martyr’s death for Christ.
 The all night Vigil was
followed by the celebration
of the Eucharist over the
tomb or place of martyrdom.
 The anniversary of a
martyr’s death was
commonly referred in early
Christianity as the Saint’s
birthday.

4. Other Names for This Solemnity
 This solemnity is also
known as:
 A. All Saints’ Day
 B. All Hallows
 C. Hallowmas
 (mass of the saints)

5. What is a solemnity?
 A solemnity is a principal feast in
the Liturgical calendar of the
Roman Catholic Church.
 Solemnities commemorate an
event in the life of Jesus, Mary or
the saints.
 The celebration of these special
feast usually begins in the
evening prior to the actual
solemnity.
 Some solemnities are also Holy
Days of obligation, on which
Catholics are required to attend
the Eucharist.

6. Solemnity
 A solemnity has the Character of
a Sunday mass.
 Two readings and psalm are read
before the Gospel.
 The Creed is recited
 If a Solemnity falls on a Sunday,
the Eucharist is celebrated with
the readings and prayer proper of
the feast, rather than the particular
Sunday.
 The readings for the Solemnity of
All Saints’ Day are:
 Revelation 7: 2-4; 9-14
 Psalm 24: 1-2; 3-4; 5-4
 1 John 3: 1-3
 Matthew 5: 1-12

7. All Saints’ Day
After this I had a vision of a great multitude,

which no one could count,
from every nation, race, people, and tongue.
They stood before the throne and before the Lamb,
wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
 Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me,
“Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?”
I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.”
He said to me,
“These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;
they have washed their robes
and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.”
 Revelation 7: 9; 13-14

8. What is Saint?
 The word Saint comes from the
Latin word “sanctus” which
means Holy.
 Every baptized Christian is called
to Holiness.
 In the Roman Catholic Church,
All Saints Day honors those holy
men and women who have
attained the beatific vision in
heaven.
 We honor them whether they are
known (canonized) or unknown
(those who surrendered to the
grace and will of God on this
earth but are not officially
recognized).

9. What is the meaning of beatific vision?
 Our Catholic faith teaches that the
Beatific Vision is the eternal,
direct perception of God enjoyed
by those who are in heaven.
 The Beatific Vision imparts
supreme happiness or blessedness
to the saints in heaven.
 In contrast, the earthly human
experience of God while alive is
indirect (mediated), the Beatific
vision is direct (immediate).
 St. Thomas Aquinas defined the
Beatific Vision as the ultimate
end of human existence.

10. Historical Developments
 4th Century: neighboring dioceses
began to transfer relics and to
celebrate the feast of specific
martyrs in common.
 May 13 (609 or 610) Pope
Boniface IV consecrated the
Pantheon at Rome to the Blessed
Virgin Mary and all the martyrs.
 Gregory III (731-741)
consecrated a chapel in the
basilica of St. Peter to all the
saints and fixed the anniversary
for November 1.
 Gregory IV (827-844) extended
this local feast to the entire
Church.

11. All Saints’ Day
 The solemnity of All
Saints is a Holy day of
obligation or a Feast of
precept for all the
faithful.

12. Holy Day of obligation
Canon 1247 states:
 The faithful are obliged to
participate in the Mass.
Moreover they are to abstain
from those works and affairs
which hinder the worship
to be rendered to God, the
joy proper to the Lord’s
Day, or the suitable
relaxation of mind and
body.

13. All Saints’ Day
 Did you Know?
 With the prior approval of the
Apostolic See, however, the
conference of bishops can suppress
some of the holy days of obligation or
transfer them to a Sunday.

14. Holy Days of Obligation in the
United States of America
 For the United States of America
 After their general annual meeting in 1991, the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) of the United
States issued the following decree on Dec. 13.
 In addition to Sunday, the days to be observed as holy
days of obligation in the Latin-rite dioceses of the
United States, in conformity with Canon 1246, are as
follows:
 Jan. 1, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
 Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the Solemnity
of the Ascension.
 Aug. 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary.
 Nov. 1, the Solemnity of All Saints.
 Dec. 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
 Dec. 25, the Solemnity of the Nativity of our Lord
Jesus Christ.

15. How to Prepare For all Saints’ Day?
 Start with a reflection on the meaning of your baptism?
 Make an examination of Conscience ( a deep introspection of your life’s
actions, mistakes and sins)
 Make arrangements at work to leave early in order to attend the services.
 Pay special attention to the prayers, readings, homily. What is God saying
to you?
 Think of a concrete way you can relate the experience of All saints’ Day to
another person.
 Incorporate piety, devotion, prayer into your daily life.
 Live by example be a role model of faith, remember the words of Jesus,
“You are the light of the world” Matthew 5:14
 Receive the Sacraments as often as possible, specially the sacraments of
reconciliation and Eucharist.
 Ask the Holy Spirit for guidance and strength.
 Pray for the grace of a happy death (to die in state of grace).

16. All Saints’ Day
“But as for me, I know that my
redeemer lives, and that he
will at last stand forth upon
the dust;
And from my flesh I shall see
God; my inmost being. Whom
I myself shall see: my own
eyes, not another's, shall
behold him.”
Job 19:23-27
Holy Men and Women of God
Pray for us.
Have a blessed All Saint’s Day!

17. The End