This article was written by Taryn Oesch DeLong in a collaboration effort with Jessica Connolly (Telos Design). Taryn is a wife and mother in Raleigh, NC and writer at Everyday Roses. and the managing editor of Catholic Women in Business. Taryn is also a volunteer with the pro-life ministry in her parish and plays the piano and the flute. Her favorite saints are Sts. Joseph, Zélie, Thérèse, and Teresa of Calcutta.
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Immediately following Halloween, Catholics celebrate two feast days that sound very similar: All Saints’ Day on November 1 and All Souls’ Day on November 2. All Saints’ Day is a holy day of obligation (except in years, like this one, when it falls on a Saturday or Monday), but All Souls’ Day is not.
All Saints’ Day is more than an opportunity to dress up like your favorite saint. And, while All Souls’ Day isn’t a holy day of obligation, it’s still an important day. What are these feast days? What’s the difference, and why are they separate days? Why—and—how should we celebrate them?
Here’s your guide to these two important fall days.
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