1 November 2025 (Saturday) / All Saints Solemnity / Solemnity of All Saints

1 November 2025 (Saturday)

All Saints Solemnity / Solemnity of All Saints.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: Revelation 7: 2-4, 9-14
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 24: 1-6
Second Reading: First John 3: 1-3
Alleluia: Matthew 11: 28
Gospel: Matthew 5: 1-12

First Reading: Revelation 7: 2-4, 9-14

And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the sign of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying: Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we sign the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them that were signed, an hundred forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel. After this I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands: And they cried with a loud voice, saying: salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the throne, and the ancients, and the four living creatures; and they fell down before the throne upon their faces, and adored God, saying: Amen. Benediction, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, honour, and power, and strength to our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the ancients answered, and said to me: These that are clothed in white robes, who are they? and whence came they? And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 24: 1-6

R. (6) Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.

The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.

R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.

Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place? The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain.

R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.

He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.

Second Reading: First John 3: 1-3

Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him. Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God; and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know, that, when he shall appear, we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is. And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

Alleluia: Matthew 11: 28
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
28 Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest, says the Lord.
(25. At that time Jesus exclaimed, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children.
26. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do.
27. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28. 'Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest.
29. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.')
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel: Matthew 5: 1-12

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him. And opening his mouth, he taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven.

For our reflection today:

Today the Church celebrates the feast of all the Saints. Men and women whom the history of the great have often ignored, because the precious pearl of their witness was covered by the veil of humility and concealment. Men and women who drew from the inexhaustible fullness of the One who alone is holy, and brought a fragment of it to life, offering Him their concrete face so that He might be incarnated in it, as in a living symbol. Each of them is a small but unique light. They lived to the fullest their calling to be themselves, according to the wonderful originality that the Creator had placed in them. Now, mysteriously united with the choir of myriads of other brothers and sisters, they illuminate the sometimes dark landscape of this world and invite it to hope, to trust; bearing witness to how God’s holiness never fails, never ceases to communicate itself, to associate with itself simple men and women, rich only in their disarmed availability, in their humble, transparent abandonment.(St John Paul II, Angelus, 1 November 1986)

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Most High Servant,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed  and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)