Msgr. Malone celebrates All Souls Day Mass at cemetery

Faithful pray rosary while processing around cemetery to remember all souls

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Msgr. Francis I. Malone delivers the homily for the All Souls Day Mass Nov. 2 at Calvary Cemetery. (Malea Hargett photo)
Msgr. Francis I. Malone delivers the homily for the All Souls Day Mass Nov. 2 at Calvary Cemetery. (Malea Hargett photo)
Jan Brass, a retired diocesan employee, reads the names of those who died and were buried at Calvary Cemetery in past 12 months. (Malea Hargett photo)
Jan Brass, a retired diocesan employee, reads the names of those who died and were buried at Calvary Cemetery in past 12 months. (Malea Hargett photo)
Area priests join Msgr. Francis I. Malone to concelebrate the Nov. 2 outdoor Mass in Little Rock. (Malea Hargett photo)
Area priests join Msgr. Francis I. Malone to concelebrate the Nov. 2 outdoor Mass in Little Rock. (Malea Hargett photo)
Attendees extend the sign of peace during the All Souls Day Mass at Calvary Cemetery. (Malea Hargett photo)
Attendees extend the sign of peace during the All Souls Day Mass at Calvary Cemetery. (Malea Hargett photo)
Parishioners bundle up for the Mass and procession around the diocesan cemetery. (Malea Hargett photo)
Parishioners bundle up for the Mass and procession around the diocesan cemetery. (Malea Hargett photo)
Msgr. Francis I. Malone and other priests lead the procession praying the rosary. (Malea Hargett photo)
Msgr. Francis I. Malone and other priests lead the procession praying the rosary. (Malea Hargett photo)
The procession concluded at Priests' Circle with a blessing of the graves. (Malea Hargett photo)
The procession concluded at Priests' Circle with a blessing of the graves. (Malea Hargett photo)
Msgr. Francis I. Malone blesses the graves of diocesan priests buried in Priests’ Circle. (Malea Hargett photo)
Msgr. Francis I. Malone blesses the graves of diocesan priests buried in Priests’ Circle. (Malea Hargett photo)
Msgr. Francis I. Malone and Jan Brass, a retired diocesan employee, look at the headstone of Msgr. Bernard Malone, Msgr. Malone's uncle, who died in 2017. (Malea Hargett photo)
Msgr. Francis I. Malone and Jan Brass, a retired diocesan employee, look at the headstone of Msgr. Bernard Malone, Msgr. Malone's uncle, who died in 2017. (Malea Hargett photo)

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Remembering all souls

Read more about past All Souls Day celebrations and what the bishop says about all souls:

Funerals time to celebrate life, pray for deceased (Nov. 5, 2014)

Halloween is OK, but schools' focus is on feast days (Oct. 29, 2011)

Father Jack Vu (left) and Msgr. Francis I. Malone distribute Communion during the All Souls Day Mass Nov. 2 at Calvary Cemetery in Little Rock.

Following Mass, attendees processed around the cemetery to Priests' Circle praying the rosary. Msgr. Malone then blessed the graves of the priests buried in the diocesan cemetery.

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