From: trudie.Miller@cox.net   
      
   November 1st - All Saints Day   
      
   The Church day by day gives special veneration to one or more of the holy men   
   and women who have helped to establish it by their blood, develop it by their   
   labors, or edify it by their virtues. But, in addition to those whom the Church   
   honors by special designation or has inscribed in her calendar, how many   
   martyrs   
   are there whose names are not recorded! How many humble virgins and holy   
   penitents! How many unknown anchorites and monks, Christian fathers and   
   mothers,   
   young children snatched away in their innocence! How many courageous   
   Christians,   
   whose merits are known only to God and His heavenly court!   
      
   Should we forget those who remember us in their intercession? Are not some   
   among   
   them our ancestors? members of our immediate family? our friends and   
   fellow-Christians, with whom we have lived in daily companionship? In fact, all   
   of Heaven is but one family - Our Lord's, as He Himself said: "Who is My mother   
   and who are My brethren? And stretching forth His hand towards His disciples,   
   He   
   said, Behold My mother and My brethren! For whoever does the Will of My Father   
   in heaven, is My brother and sister and mother." Today we have the opportunity   
   to thank God, if at other times we forget, for their aid and their love. And   
   today we adore Him with them, for the grace which raised them to their present   
   joy. The Church requires this homage of us, by making this day a holy day of   
   obligation for all. Our place, too, is awaiting us in this home of eternal   
   light, peace and love, if we persevere to the end in the fulfillment of God's   
   holy Will.   
      
   Reflection: Let us be solicitous to render ourselves worthy of that chaste   
   generation, so beautiful amid the glory where it dwells. (Cf. Wisdom 4:1)   
      
   Source: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on Butler's   
   Lives of the Saints and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Brothers:   
   New York, 1894).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Better to be reproved by the grammarians than not understood by the people.   
   --St Augustine   
      
   Bible Quote   
   And answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and   
   seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear,   
   the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached:   
   And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me.  (Luke 7:22-23)   
      
      
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   Prayer To Our Lady of Prompt Succor   
      
   O, Mary, Mother of God, who, amidst the   
   tribulations of the world, watches over us and over   
   the Church of your Son, be to us and to the Church   
   truly OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR, make haste to help   
   us in all our necessities, that in this fleeting   
   life you may be our succor, and obtain for us (here   
   ask the particular favor you desire). Help us to   
   gain life everlasting through the merits of Jesus,   
   your Son, our Lord and Redeemer. Amen.   
   (partial indulgence)   
      
   Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the   
   Father.   
   Our Lady of Prompt Succor, hasten to help   
   us. (Three times)   
      
   O Queen of the Universe, Our Lady of Prompt   
   Succor, sovereign full of kindness, you are the   
   advocate of sinners, a haven of safety to the   
   shipwrecked; you are the resource of the world, the   
   ransom of captives, the health of the infirm, the   
   consolation of the afflicted, the refuge and   
   salvation of all on earth. We beseech you to grant   
   us the help of your prayers, which incline our   
   Heavenly Father to forgive our sins and grant our   
   petitions in all the necessities of this miserable   
   life, prayers which obtain for us an abundance of   
   graces to receive the pardon of our faults and   
   arrive at the practice of virtue, prayers which stop   
   our enemies, confound their designs, and triumph   
   over their efforts. Amen. (partial indulgence)   
      
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