Masses for All Saints’ Day will be held on Saturday, October 31 at 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 1 at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. This day is a holy day of obligation.

“Halloween is the eve of Hallowmass, better known as All Saints’ Day.  Hallowmass celebrates God’s harvesting into heaven the faithful of every age, culture, and walk of life.  It is a day of glorious rejoicing.  Saints are people who, by their joyful service, have extended the love of God to others.  The Roman martyrology—the list of the saints officially recognized as such by the church—contains over ten thousand names.  And those are only the saints whose names we remember!  All Saints’ Day also remembers those holy people whom no one but God any longer knows.  The reading for the day from the Book of Revelation describes ‘a great multitude that no one could count.’” (Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications; Text by Mary Ellen Hynes and David Philippart.)