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Thus, even a simple household can become a holy field.

On Wednesday, we celebrate Saints Simon and Judas.

Before choosing the apostles, Jesus prayed all night.

That is very important.

It's always the Sunday before Advent.

If you go to the traditional Latin Mass, you'll notice that it is the Sunday before all saints, the idea being that Christ the King creates all the saints and the hope for all the souls.

So Christ the King is positioned with all the saints.

And by the way, If you need help keeping track of the year, of course you do, the liturgical year, you need a traditional Catholic calendar.

Do your own research.

Make your own decisions.

The reason the Feast of Christ the King was placed in the last Sunday of October, right before the Feast of All Saints, which is on November 1st, the idea is Christ is King now.

beginning with his crucifixion and resurrection.

Join us as we unite in prayer for the souls of the faithful departed.

remembering our loved ones as we honor the feast of all souls for more information visit the catholic cemeteries website at catholic cemeteries of columbus dot org And of course, check your parish bulletins for the special masses also for all souls and all saints.

And Mike, we haven't talked a ton about this, but you are one of the founders of an apostolate here in town, the Purgatorial Society.

Yes.

And big news for

the Saint Challenge.

Yes, it resets on All Saints Day.

And what does reset mean? Well, I decided since it is the Saint Challenge that it would start on All Saints Day on November 1st.

Hello and welcome to the warm-up for Sunday, November 1st, 2026, the Solemnity of All Saints.

My name is Fr.

John Jaska, the pastor of the Chatham Catholic Family of Parishes.

This is the Gospel of the Lord.

Well, hello, everyone.

Welcome to this special edition of the warm-up as we prepare for the Solemnity of All Saints.

Of course, it falls on a Sunday this year, and so it takes precedence, and it is an amazing, joyful celebration of our heroes in faith.

The saints in heaven who are not only rewarded with the gift of eternal life in the kingdom, but also as saints are people of inspiration, people of hope, people who intercede for us, people who inspire us and encourage us, people that we can pray to that bring us closer to the love of Christ, closer to his presence, and who help us live our lives of faith today.

The faithfully departed, right? All Hallows Eve.

And we do All Saints Day for all those who are in heaven.

Saints that the church recognizes and the church doesn't recognize.

Ordinary people.

We think we have to be some extraordinary person to get to heaven.

No, actually, we need to reclaim.

All Hallows Eve, hollow meaning holy.

How does that change our perspective on October 31st, knowing that it's just the eve of All Saints Day? Jesse.

Okay.

that we should have respect for saints.

All Saints Day is the original papal holiday.

700 years ago, the papacy created All Saints Day to venerate saints and to venerate the apostles and those who came before us.

and to remember them and to remember the faithful.

And I think that's critically important.

between acceptance and like glorification of it and like...

Yes.

Right.

Like we do a service here at my church in our memorial garden on All Saints Day.

And that feels less weird for us because these are people, you know.

We know they are not there like physically and spiritually, that they are with they are with God in paradise and they're beholding all the glory there.

And we are all such different people with different personalities, different motivations, different everything that, you know, a book I love, you might hate.

That's fine.

I view very similar with Saints and Relics.

I don't think they're magic.

Pope Leo XIV has recognized the heroic virtues of six Catholics whose lives of service, missionary zeal, and perseverance in suffering have advanced their sainthood causes.

During an October 24th audience with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Pope declared those six Catholics venerable.

They include two missionary bishops, Friedrich Kaiser Deppel and Oreste Marengo, Margherita Bavossi, a member of the Focolare spiritual movement, Italian priests, Fathers Domenico Poliani and Alessandro Vittetti, and Capuchin brother Daniele of San Giovanni Rotondo, a spiritual son of Padre Pio.

The German-born Bishop Kaiser Deppel spent most of his priestly and episcopal ministry in Peru, where he helped rebuild communities after a devastating earthquake, and he became known as a pioneer of the biblical apostolate.