Saint John Chapel Bulletin
1397 Brick Church Rd.
Bland, Missouri 65014
(Highway P and Brick Church Road)
October 26, 2025
Christ The King
Sunday, Oct 26, 9:00am
The Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I cl., White
No Commemoration Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Monday, Oct 27, 9:00am
Mass of twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, IV cl., Green
Tuesday, Oct 28, 5:00pm
Ss Simon & Jude Apostles, II cl., Red
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Wednesday, Oct 29, 8:00am
Votive Immaculate Heart of Mary, White
Thursday, Oct 30 No Mass
Friday, Oct 31, 8:00am
Votive Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, White
Saturday, Nov 1, 4:00pm
All Saints, I cl., White
Sunday, Nov 2, 9:00am
Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost II cl., Green
Monday, Nov 3, 8:00, 8:30am & 5:00pm
Commemoration of All Souls, I cl., Black
Officiant: Father Brendan Dardis, OSB
This is a Private Chapel dedicated to the Latin Mass and to the Traditional Sacraments
Prayer Requests: Jane Petry who will be having heart surgery on October 22.
Mother of Lu Prayer: After Mass at the Communion Rail every Sunday.
Confessions: 30 minutes before Mass: Rosary, 20 minutes before Mass
Collection: October 19: $ 531
The Feast of All Saints
Why has the Church instituted this festival?
To give praise to God in His saints, (Ps. cl.) and to pay to the saints themselves the honor which they merit for having made it the work of their earthly life to promote the honor of God. 2. To impress vividly upon our minds that we are members of that holy Catholic Church which believes in the communion of saints, that is, in the communion of all true Christians, who belong to the Church triumphant in heaven, to the Church suffering in purgatory, or to the Church militant upon earth; but, more particularly, to cause us earnestly to consider the communion of the saints in heaven with us, who are yet battling on earth.
3. To exhort us to raise our eyes and hearts, especially on this day, to heaven, where before the throne of God is gathered the innumerable multitude of saints of all countries, times, nationalities and ranks of life, who have faithfully followed Christ and left us glorious examples of virtues, which we ought to imitate. This we can do, for the saints, too, were weak men, who fought and conquered only by the grace of God, which will not be denied to us.
4. To honor those saints, for whom during the year there-is no special festival appointed by the Church. Finally, that in consideration of so many intercessors God may grant us perfect reconciliation, may permit us to share in their merits, and may grant us the grace to enjoy with them, one day, the bliss of heaven.
Who first instituted this festival?
Pope Boniface IV. first suggested the celebration of this festival, when in 610 he ordered that the Pantheon, a pagan temple at Rome, dedicated to all the gods, should be converted into a Christian church, and the relics of the saints, dispersed through the different Roman cemeteries, taken up and placed therein. He then dedicated the Church to the honor of the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs, and thus for the first time celebrated the Festival of All Saints, directing that it should be observed in Rome every year. Pope Gregory IV. extended this feast to the whole Catholic Church, and appointed the 1st of November as the day of its celebration.