Saint Parades: Liturgical Living During Hallowtide

PHOTO ESSAY: How does your local parish, school or Catholic community celebrate our friends the saints?

North Dakota students celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints.
North Dakota students celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints. (photo: Courtesy photos)

“Each saint is a mission, planned by the Father to reflect and embody, at a specific moment in history, a certain aspect of the Gospel,” Pope Francis wrote in Gaudete et Exsultate.

“That mission has its fullest meaning in Christ and can only be understood through him.”

This Hallowide, the Register offers photos from Catholic families and schools highlighting young Catholics honoring the Church Triumphant by dressing as their favorite saints; one home-school group even does a saint parade at a park.

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Young Catholics from Georgia, Illinois and Minnesota celebrate the solemnity.(Photo: Courtesy photos)

How does your local parish, school or Catholic community celebrate our friends the saints?

Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis