All Souls

What it commemorates

All Souls commemorates all the faithful departed, for whom the Church prays.

Place in the liturgical year

It is kept on 2 November, the day after All Saints.

In the 1962 Latin Mass Calendar

In the 1962 calendar it is kept as a day of the first class: In Commemoratione Omnium Fidelium Defunctorum.

Modern Roman Calendar

The Modern Roman Calendar ranks it as a solemnity; its ranks differ from the four classes of 1962.

Sources

All liturgical days