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All Souls' Day

The Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
Saturday, November 2 - 10 am
In the New testament, the word "saints" is used to describe the entire membership of the Christian community. However, from very early times, the word "saint" came to be applied primarily to persons of heroic sanctity, whose deeds were recalled with gratitude by later generations. Beginning in the tenth century, it became customary to set aside another day -- as a sort of extention of All Saints -- on which the Church remembered that vast body of the faithful who, though no less members of the company of the redeemed, are unknown in the wider fellowship of the Church. It was also a day for particular remembrance of all the special people within our church community ad our lives whom we love but no longer see.
St. Anthony on the Desert ~ 12990 E. Shea Boulevard ~ Scottsdale, AZ 85259
480.451.0860 ~ email: office@st-anthony.net