{"id":110825,"date":"2026-10-31T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=110825"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:03:36","slug":"vigil-of-all-saints-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/vigil-of-all-saints-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Vigil of All Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

L<\/span>et us prepare our souls for the graces heaven is about to shower upon the earth in return for its homage. To-morrow the Church will be so overflowing with joy, that she will seem to be already in possession of eternal happiness; but to-day she appears in the garb of penance, confessing that she is still an exile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us fast and pray with her; for are not we too pilgrims and strangers in this world, where all things are fleeting and hurry on to death? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year by year, as the great solemnity comes round, it has gathered from among our former companions new saints, who bless our tears and smile upon our songs of hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year by year the appointed time draws nearer, when we ourselves, seated at the heavenly banquet, shall receive the homage of those who succeed us, and hold out a helping hand to draw them after us to the home of everlasting happiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us learn, from this very hour, to emancipate our souls; let us keep our hearts free, in the midst of the vain solicitudes and false pleasures of a strange land: the exile has no care but his banishment, no joy but that which gives him a foretaste of his fatherland.<\/p>\n\n\n

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With these thoughts in mind, let us pray with the Church the [former] Collect of the vigil:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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O<\/span> Lord our God, <\/em>multiply thy grace upon us;
and lift us in our holy profession to follow the joy of thee,
whose glorious solemnity we anticipate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through our Lord, Jesus Christ Thy Son,
Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, world without end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

(from The Liturgical Year: Time After Pentecost Book V<\/em> by Dom Prosper Gu\u00e9ranger, O.S.B.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us prepare our souls for the graces heaven is about to shower upon the earth in return for its homage. To-morrow the Church will be so overflowing with joy, that she will seem to be already in possession of eternal happiness; but to-day she appears in the garb of penance, confessing that she is still an exile. 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