Feast of All Saints & All Souls

Published on October 27, 2025

November – Month of Remembering (Mí na Mairbh)

All Saints Day – Saturday 1st November is a Holy Day when we celebrate the women and men we have known and from every time and place who are not formally recognised as saints but have been welcomed home to God. Mass @ 10am & 7.30pm in St. Brendan’s

All Souls Day – Sunday 2nd November we remember our beloved dead. We have a beautiful tradition of visiting a church or graveyard on this day and throughout November (Mí na Mairbh) to pray quietly for our dead and to be encouraged by their memories. Some people treat the month of November as a mini Lent – making sacrifices, staying off alcohol or sweet things or attending Mass. Sunday Mass times 8.30, 10.30 & 12noon.

Reflection

God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between people. He has not created me for nothing. I shall do good; I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments. Therefore, I will trust Him, whatever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in worry, my worry may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me. Still, He knows what He is about.” (John Henry Newman)