All Saints/All Souls

"The saints did not all begin well, but they ended well." - St. John Vianney

While the recognition of All Souls’ Day, also known as All Faithful Departed, on November 2 has fallen away in recent decades [I notice it has been “disappeared” from the electronic version of the Ordo Calendar], I have always regarded it as linked to the greater feast of All Saints’ Day on November 1 as the second of two portions of a whole.

All Saints’…