November 2nd 2023 - The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls)

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 24: 1 – 8 But at daybreak on the first day of the week they […the women…] took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and be crucified, and rise on the third day." And they remembered his words. The Gospel of the Lord