Our celebrant began Mass with just those words: “Happy Feast Day, children!” (It was mostly school children.) Our deacon gave a wonderful homily about the unnamed saints in heaven and how we can become saints - and how to not become a saint. It was filled with wonderful gems like quotes from the Bl. Teresa of Calcutta, St. Augustine and others.

Per our priest’s request, I cantored the Litany of the Saints and heard the assembly gathered prayerfully singing/echoing my lead. We rarely incorporate the sung Litany into Liturgy, but when we do, it brings tears to my eyes. Heard many compliments after Mass about how nice it was to hear and pray the Litany through song given the only other time we generally sing it is Easter Vigil.

Our Mass was terrible. The priest our obviously not prepared.  It was very upsetting.  NO litany, nothing much about the saints.  Terrible.

Wonderful Mass by our young committed priest.  He gave a longish homily asking us to focus first on the LOVE of God (the second reading today from St. Paul) and then connecting how much God loves the saints and how he desires us all to emulate that keen love of and for God which can enable us ALL to become saints.  I was also struck by the Blessed Mother, whose statue was still on the altar from the month of the Rosary, and what a perfect saint she is.  I want so much to be more like her—and Christ!  May God bless everyone today!

What I heard was the Sermon on the Mount - the beatitudes.  I am in a Bible Study course by Jeff Cavins and last week we spent the hour on the beatitudes.  It was great to hear them again in the liturgy!  I heard the beautiful song, “For all the Saints” for our opening song.  I heard the sung “Gloria”, and our priest sung the beginning of the Eucharistic prayer.  What I saw was the incensing of the Book of Gospels and the altar and the congregation.  I heard the words of institution of the Eucharist.  Great liturgy at the noon Mass led by our young priest!

Wow! How are people so confident in themselves? I could easily say Mother Teresa is in heaven. Am I going to get there?......well I hope so;D

The priest we heard (we went to our former parish) spoke about everyday Saints and forgotten souls in purgatory who have no one to pray for them on their journey to Heaven.  He spoke of our call to become Saints and how all are invited to the table.  What was interesting about mass though was not the homily.  This priest is older and he has Parkinsons.  He struggled through mass.  He dropped the host on the altar (prior to consecration), he forgot words to the mass, he lost his place and he just generally had a tough night.  It was beautiful.  This man clearly loves Our Lord and he is so happy to be offering the sacrifice of the mass.  It was so representative of our own struggles.  Of how we love the Lord so much but sometimes falter and sometimes get lost and sometimes struggle but remain faithful in our love of God.  Such an unexpected and beautiful reminder of the often rocky road to Sainthood that we all walk.  May God bless this priest and all of the holy priests of God on their journey to Sainthood!

I’d be curious to know if the poll asked this question to Catholics or Christians in general.  Most other Christian faiths think Catholics are going to Hell.  That might explain why so few thought Mother Teresa was in Heaven, but thought they would definitely be going there.

We heard a homily about living our lives with the saints as our guides so that we might also go to heaven and how the feast is not only for cannonized saints but the many, many people who lived their lives so well and in such faith that they too are in heaven. 

There was not litany or anything, but it was also not a well attended mass.  I hope the morning one was better attended, as there were probably only a dozen or so people at the evening one.  Rather sad, but par for the course in our parish where daily mass is sometimes not even at the church, but said in two of the local nursing homes two of the days of the week.  I think the fact our daily masses are typically only at 8 a.m., right when people are leaving for work, and only on Ash Wednesday is there an evening weekday mass, that people just didn’t think to go.  It was the same people that you see weekly in mass that were there last night.

There are some celebrities who I pray for constantly, hoping they’re in Heaven (or Purgatory).
Since Mother Theresa is blessed, she’s in heaven I’m sure.
Unfortunately, I was literally stuck at home with no power and no car November 1 so I don’t know how it went.
That being said, just about every day is a feast day for one saint or another.
One wonders if so and so is such a great Catholic, why isn’t that person canonized? We should petition every person whom we believe is in Heaven for miracles so the least of them is canonized, but that’s just me.