Catholic Activity: All Souls Day

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All Souls Day is the proper time to make us and ours acquainted with the liturgy of death, the office of the dead. Even children can feel the majestic, earnest and consoling hope that swings in its every verse. During the rest of November we can tell more about the theme: death, its inevitable certainty, its character as punishment, its transformation and sanctification through Christ's victorious death on the cross. Let us tell the children stories: of how Saints died and how sinners, how great men and women of history, how our own grandparents and relatives left this world of misery for the eternal fields of glory. We are strangers in this world, our true home can never be here. Christ's kingdom is not of this world. But we pray and work that his kingdom come, and his glorious Advent on the clouds of heaven.