The feast of All Saints, celebrated every November 1, is an opportunity to remember that we are all called to be saints by taking different paths towards this communion with God and with our brothers and sisters, as Father Laurent Rivet so aptly put it.
According to the Catholic Church, celebrating the saints reminds us that people before us have dedicated their lives to bringing the message of Jesus Christ to the world.
It is therefore, according to the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, an important feast just like Christmas, the Assumption or Easter.
The Catholic Church recognizes that some people deserve to be officially recognized as saints through a procedure known as canonization. However, the Church also maintains that many others have also lived in fidelity to the Gospel and in service to all. This is why, on All Saints’ Day, Christians celebrate all the saints, known or unknown.
This feast precedes the feast of the dead. And in Mauritius, many Mauritians, after the mass, will go to the cemetery to bloom the graves of their departed loved ones.
All Saints’ Day Mass – Recorded at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Rose Hill – Monday, November 1, 2021 from 4:30 p.m. on MBC 3 and MBC SAT – Rebroadcast on Senn Kreol from 8 p.m.
