Monday, November 2, 2020

A Reading From The Gospel Of John On All Souls' Day - 2 November

Based on the Gospel of John, All Souls' Day ought not to be for only the souls in Purgatory and the souls faithful to God but also for all the souls "that have done good things". [1]

John 5:25-29 is the Gospel reading for the first of three Masses on All Souls' Day in the 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal.  The passage quoted below is from Biblegateway - Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) [Emphasis  added] [2]:

25 Amen, amen I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.

26 For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given the Son also to have life in himself:

27 And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man.

28 Wonder not at this; for the hour cometh, wherein all  that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God.

29 And they that have done good things, shall come forth unto the resurrection of life; but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.


[2] Ibid.

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