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November 01, 2005
Happy All Saints Day
(Jimmy Akin)
Don't forget to go to Mass if you didn't go Monday evening.
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What's Korean for "Happy All Saints Day"? :-)
Posted by: Edward Curtis | Nov 1, 2005 3:39:08 AM
If I see my friend at school today, I will ask her.
Posted by: Benedict | Nov 1, 2005 5:21:41 AM
I was wondering because of the picture Jimmy posted. (Check the file name!)
Thanks in advance if you are able to find out.
Posted by: Edward | Nov 1, 2005 5:44:47 AM
My favorite day of the year. It's autumn, the year is shutting down, we're back on Standard Time, and it's the only day in the year that I get to hear Ralph Vaughan Williams at my parish.
Posted by: Annalucia | Nov 1, 2005 6:34:48 AM
Nice painting of St. Andrew Kim and other Korean saints!!!
I've always admired Korean Catholicism. As far as I know, Korea is the only nation that was evangelized by books without any missionaries. (After reading several Catholic books, they sneaked some men into China to get them ordained.)
Posted by: pha | Nov 1, 2005 8:00:35 AM
Chanmi Yesu-nim! [Laudetur Jesus Chrsitus!]
"All Saints' Day" in Korean is "Modeun Seongin Daechuckil."
"Happy All Saints' Day" might be rendered as "Modeun Seongin Daechuckil-eul Chukhahamnida," but it sounds a bit awkward to my non-native speaker ear.
And "pha" is correct; Koreans in a sense "self-evangelized." Korean priests, the first of whom was Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, returned from China to spread the Faith. French missionaries later lent a hand. About 10,000 were martyred in 19th Century persecutions, 103 of these martyrs canonized. With a Catholic population of only about 8%, this gives Korea the highest per capita number of saints, if I'm not mistaken.
Joshua Snyder
Pohang, South Korea
Posted by: Katolik Shinja | Nov 1, 2005 12:38:19 PM
Err...
What if I am not officially catholic yet? I'm still in RCIA and didn't know it was a day of obligation.
Also, what if I join the byzantine rite?
Posted by: Devin Scherck | Nov 1, 2005 12:47:36 PM
What if I am not officially catholic yet? I'm still in RCIA and didn't know it was a day of obligation.
You can still go to Mass. November 1 is not over.
Also, what if I join the byzantine rite?
The Eastern Catholic Churches in the United States have different holy days of obligation from the Latin Church in the United States. Consult the laws of the Church you are joining.
Posted by: pha | Nov 1, 2005 1:56:11 PM
If you are a RCIA candidate, you are not a Catholic, thus are not obligated to attend Mass.
Eastern Rite Catholics celebrate this feast day shortly after Pentecost. Consult a Eastern rite Calendar.
Roman Rite Catholics who attend Eastern Rite, but have not formally changed rites, must attend Mass today.
Missing Mass is a mortal sin, so if you happen to miss Mass, always make a visit to confession before receiving Holy Communion the next time you attend Mass. If Confession is not available, you must still attend Mass, but may not receive communion until such a sin is confessed.
Posted by: NeoConSpy | Nov 1, 2005 2:17:57 PM
Missing Mass without good cause is a mortal sin, because it is an act of disobedience.
Posted by: Mary | Nov 1, 2005 6:42:56 PM
Meanwhile, I crawled out of bed half an hour early to make it to early morning Mass. Which was easier because I was skipping breakfast anyway, having managed to lose a temporary crown on Halloween candy, and eating was painful.
I was afraid that with the dentist office opening at noon (when the downtown church had Mass), and open until 7 (when my parish has its evening Mass), there would be no other time.
So -- the dentist was able to get me in within half an hour, and I could easily have gone to evening Mass.
Life is like that. 0:)
Posted by: Mary | Nov 1, 2005 6:49:35 PM
Oooooh, Mary, I did that a few years back. I feel your pain. Besides the tooth pain there's also the pain in the wallet.
Posted by: hippo354 | Nov 2, 2005 9:52:45 PM
it is nice to meet God early in the morning specially in the celebration of the holy eucharist. i'm a seminarian and i like always to meet God early in the morning to thank Him for the gift of life that Godhas given unto me.Thanks!!!
Posted by: jing | Jul 24, 2006 6:51:49 AM
Join this group www.flickr.com/groups/allsaintsday
Posted by: Marc | Oct 1, 2007 7:05:43 AM
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