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| 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
We are sinners, we make poor choices and we need God to intervene to heal us, forgive us and set us free from the power of these evils. |
| Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Memorial Mass 2024
Help others and your inner attitudes will begin to change. Make sacrifices for those in need and you'll become a different person on the inside. |
| 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
By giving our tithe, we recognize that everything we think we own really belongs to God and we just have the use of it for a time. |
Go to Mass on All Saints' Day Nov. 1
All Saints' Day is the feast on which we celebrate those who have died and gone to heaven. Catholic teaching holds that all people in heaven are saints. This includes all saints, not just those who are known to us (those canonized by the Church). We, the faithful on earth, celebrate their triumph and seek to learn from their example in what it means to live holy lives. We also ask them to pray for us so that we go to heaven as well. This feast is so important that it is a solemnity and holy day of obligation to attend Mass. It is celebrated on Nov. 1. All Saints' Day should not More
Pray for dead on All Souls' Day
The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, or All Souls' Day, is the feast day dedicated to praying for all those who have died and are in purgatory. Souls in purgatory "have not yet been purified" in order to enter heaven. That said, the Church teaches those in purgatory will get to heaven eventually and our prayers help them get there. "All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven." More
All Souls' Day Mass at Calvary Nov. 2
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor will celebrate the annual All Souls' Day Mass at Calvary Cemetery at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2. It is located at the corner of Wright Avenue and South Woodrow Street in Little Rock. Get driving directions from your location. The main entrance is off of Charles Bussey Avenue. Mass will be followed by the blessing of graves and praying the rosary. All are invited. If it rains, the Mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Little Rock at 10 a.m. For more information, contact Tricia Gentry, office manager for Calvary Cemetery More
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| 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
We are sinners, we make poor choices and we need God to intervene to heal us, forgive us and set us free from the power of these evils. |
| Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Memorial Mass 2024
Help others and your inner attitudes will begin to change. Make sacrifices for those in need and you'll become a different person on the inside. |
| 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
By giving our tithe, we recognize that everything we think we own really belongs to God and we just have the use of it for a time. |
