Dear Friend,

To those who were present as well as those who viewed the live-streamed Pontifical Mass, on November 1, All Saints Day - most felt that they were raptured in the sacred, heavenly glories of the Catholic Church. 

Sacred first class relics of the saints were placed on the altar representing the Church Triumphant.

For the Pontifical Mass, Cardinal Burke processed in wearing his religious clothing as a Cardinal, not yet fully vested to offer the Holy Mass. His Eminence’s red skull cap was worn and not a bishop's mitre.

Instead of approaching the altar, a visit to the Blessed Sacrament for prayer.

Preaching the Sermon on a faldstool.

Highlights: 

All Saints

“Considering all the saints, we are strongly reminded of the immeasurable and unceasing bounty of divine grace – of divine life flowing from the Sacred Heart of Jesus into our hearts – , calling us to holiness of life, the call given to each of us, without exception, at our baptism.” 

“We are called to embrace suffering, in order to be purified of our own sinfulness and to be strengthened to love God and neighbor purely and selflessly. We are called to reflect the holiness of God in our dispositions, words and actions before others, struggling daily to overcome sin and to do what is just and loving.”

“We are called to reflect the holiness of God in our dispositions, words and actions before others, struggling daily to overcome sin and to do what is just and loving. Finally, we are called to accept willingly indifference, hostility, persecution, and even martyrdom because of our following of Christ, and to rejoice in sharing, with Christ, the Cross which leads to the Resurrection of Eternal Life.”

“Our Lord Jesus Christ, seated in glory at the right hand of the Father, reaches down to us, as we approach, and He draws us to Himself, to His glorious-pierced Heart. Through our celebration of the Holy Mass, we who are still on earth are united with all the saints in Heaven in their worship of God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”

“The saints, the Heavenly Choir who are present at every offering of the Holy Mass, will help us now to draw near to Christ, help us to be received into His all-loving Heart. Imitating the example of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Virgin Mother of God, and all the saints, and calling upon the help of their prayers, let us now unite our hearts to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. From His open Heart, the source of all holiness, we will receive the grace to seek daily the perfection of a holy life, to which we all are called.”

All Souls

“Throughout the month, we will be remembering, in thought and prayer, our beloved deceased brothers and sisters, prayerfully visiting the places of their burial, if possible, and having Holy Masses offered for their eternal rest. We will also be remembering the dead whom we do not know but who have need of our prayers. November and All Souls Day, in particular, is a time for us to obtain plenary indulgences for our deceased brothers and sisters, so that the temporal punishment due to their sins may be remitted.”

 First Saturday of Reparation

Also observing today the First Saturday of Reparation, which the Infant Jesus and His Mother, Our Lady of Fatima, by their apparitions to the Venerable Lúcia dos Santos on December 10, 1925, and February 15, 1926, have asked us to do, we are reminded of how much our indifference, ingratitude, and sins wound His Most Sacred Heart and her Immaculate Heart. In both the apparitions of December 10, 1925, and of February 15, 1926, the substance of the First Saturdays Devotion is made clear: a profound realization of how sin offends Our Lord and His Immaculate Mother, a humble and contrite heart which strives to make reparation for sins committed and the offense they cause to Our Lord and His Immaculate Virgin Mother, and trust in the promise which accompanies the devotion, that is, Our Lady’s promise to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, those who observe the First Saturdays with true repentance and the desire to make reparation out of selfless and pure love of God.”

“The First Saturdays Devotion is not an isolated act but expresses a way of life, namely, daily conversion of heart to Christ’s Most Sacred Heart, under the maternal guidance and care of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. May the First Saturdays Devotion be an integral part of our striving to live in the love of Christ, to be “perfect, as [our] heavenly Father is perfect.”

“If Our Lady is asking us to practice the First Saturdays Devotion, why are we not doing it?”

There are already over 9,000 views of the Pontifical Mass. To view, click here.

To read the entire sermon, click here.

Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

Thomas McKenna

Founder and President

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
https://www.catholicaction.org/

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