All Saints’ Day is an old feast day within the Church. It hasn’t always been on November 1, but that is where it has been for 1300 years now. Why do we celebrate such a day? Why remember the saints and commemorate the work of those long dead? It’s because they are not truly dead, but live in Christ awaiting the resurrection! The works they did, whether known or unknown, are works that have paved the way for us today to be saints. So we remember them because without them, we wouldn’t be here.

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