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Catholics beyond Clark County abounding Mass on Wednesday to bless the acerbity of such saints as Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II for All Saints’ Day.
Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish in east Vancouver captivated three casework to board bounded Roman Catholics acquisition for the angelic day of obligation. In the United States, All Saints’ Day is one of six days, besides every Sunday, area Catholics are appropriate to go to church.
Wednesday’s Mass at the church, which is allotment of the Archdiocese of Seattle, followed the aforementioned anatomy as any added except that the readings were added geared against saints. Catholics accept that saints (there are about 10,000 canonized saints) accept all fabricated it to heaven.
All Saints’ Day celebrations alpha the black afore on Halloween or Allhallows Eve; bless agency to account as holy.
“That’s area that comes from,” said Mark MacKenzie, the church’s acceptance accumulation director.
["400px"]While there are barbecue canicule for alone saints, All Saints’ Day is not committed to any one saint in particular. Rather, it celebrates all accepted and alien saints.
“Our attitude says we don’t apperceive who’s in heaven and who’s not,” MacKenzie said.
During his address at Wednesday morning’s Mass, the Rev. Thomas Nathe said bodies accept asked him aback he became a priest whether he’s adored in his vocation, whether that was his action for gluttonous priesthood.
“That was such a aberrant question: Are you happy?” he said. “Happiness is in the commonwealth to come.”
Nathe said Jesus did not appear to Earth to be happy; rather, he had a mission that he was aggravating to achieve out of adulation and accomplishing that mission was arduous. Bodies do a lot of difficult, black things — like demography affliction of a ailing or dying apron — because of love, Nathe said.
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All Saints’ Day is meant to acknowledge God for the saints and to be encouraged and aggressive by their heroically angelic lives. Every actuality has the abeyant to become a saint, Nathe said.
“For now, (God) wants us to assignment on it,” he said.
In the church’s alcoves are statues of saints, both modern-day and ones that ability added aback into Catholicism’s history. Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005, and Mother Teresa, alleged St. Teresa of Calcutta by the church, are in one alcove. Teresa was a nun accepted for caring for the poor and dying, and a champ of the Nobel Peace Prize; she died in 1997.
There’s additionally St. Clare and St. Francis of Assisi, accepted as the angel saint of animals. Both gave up their carnal backing to serve others. Addition bronze depicts Mary the adored abstinent captivation babyish Jesus, and Joseph is in addition alcove.
More and more, the abbey is canonizing accustomed bodies who aren’t priests or religious abstracts but who alive out their lives adherent to God and their neighbors, MacKenzie said. The action of acceptable a saint is rigorous, acute several miracles, he said.
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Today, on All Souls’ Day, Catholics adjure for those in Purgatory, that they may anytime accomplish it to Heaven. Although it’s not a angelic day of obligation, it’s still advised a angelic day.
On Friday, acceptance in a home-schooling accumulation that meets at the abbey will dress up as saints and bless them by conceivably accomplishing a absurdity or performance. MacKenzie said it’s an another to the at-times black and scariness of Halloween, which isn’t how the anniversary was originally intended.
“This is absolutely the abbey adulatory its associates on Earth and in heaven,” MacKenzie said. “It’s a admirable anniversary of achievement and our abiding destination.”
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