November 1st, 2026: All Saints Day. I woke up and had 3 fried eggs for breakfast and then brushed my teeth before getting some coffee to go with. I got dressed up fancy wearing my grey blazer with my white button-up and my green pelican tie before deciding to drive to church for the first time. I left at 9:00pm and arrived by 9:18pm, finding some good parking a block away and then walking in to get into the prayer line, I saw the older French priest giving a blessing to Adam II and his fiancée while waiting in the long confession line. Pollux was here wearing his usual long sleeved dark green shirt and he got in line a few spots behind me. Just before I got in to confess my sins. The priest went out to do something, I had to stand to the side for the procession of the priests to the altar. I spotted Horseradish and waved at him, I finally confessed my sins and then ended up in the back behind the last pew. Liseuxa came in behind me and waved to me before finding a spot in the pews. There was two homilies somehow, the one by the older French priest was more about it being All Saints Day while the one by Father Ironside was more about the history behind the famous Trick-or-treat tradition where people would go around asking for the names of the recently deceased to pray for or they play a harmless prank (the trick) and it starting in Ireland (Catholic nation) and Scotland (Presbyterian part of the UK) being brought over by immigrants in the 19th century, but the Puritans in America got a little angry. Communion took a long time and I noticed Kong was now in the back pew. I prayed for a while and then went over to the cafeteria for the donut social and held the door open for a while, welcoming plenty of people in including Yor and her boyfriend, Bonaventure, and the Kenoshan. Eventually a church lady brought over a full cardboard box so I wouldn’t have to hold it open for a long time. I got in and had 2 donuts plus coffee and then sat down to eat them, I noticed there was a different line for actual lunch so I got in that and it had things I loved like peppered salami, prosciutto, tiny pickles, a ham sandwich, and some pasta salad. I went back to eat and then saw all the kids go up dressed as saints, there were plenty and I remember some including: Saint George, Saint Ambrose (my confirmation saint), Saint Michael (my baptismal saint), Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Saint Longinus, Saint Patrick, Saint Mary, Saint Maximillian Kolbe, Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati, and some others I didn’t know. I ate my lunch and then left but as I was talking with Bonaventure, he told me that he’d be going to this cemetery later today to pray for the souls of the dead. I went to my car and at 12:07pm I started this conversation with Warner:
>Why didn’t you come to [my church].
>And join the saint costume procession.
>Abscond’s thing got canceled.
<Next year I will
<[picture of Warner dressed as St Maximillian Kolbe]
<Or I'll have Fr. Martin dress me again like earlier this year lol
>Not Fr. James Martin
<Yeah I saw. She texted me about what happened yesterday
<The new Polish priest at the Basilica
>Wait what happened?
>Too low turnout?
<She gave CPR on someone and saved her life yesterday and just wasn't in the right state of mind to host
>I thought it was something else, I DM’d her asking for the address and she never opened it.
>I assumed a more hostile intent.
<Got it. No, not hostile at all. It was rescheduled for 2 weeks from today
I was still a bit paranoid that Warner told Abscond that I assumed hostile intent towards her but she was nice enough to listen. I drove home and then gamed for a long time. I messaged Bonaventure asking about when the graveyard rosary prayer would be and I didn’t get anything. I talked with Titania about hanging out later tonight and she just told me that she can’t due to being sick, later she said she had to go to the emergency room for alcohol poisoning and dehydration yesterday. I eventually got a message from Bonaventure at 3:14pm:
<Check the chat
He said he was praying at Holy Apostles cemetery in New Berlin, Wisconsin at 3:45pm and arrived at roughly 4:15pm, turns out the usb port to those round phone outlets wasn’t working in my car so my phone had a very low battery percentage. I got out and Bonaventure told me I was the only one to show up and he was just done praying his rosary but he said that everyone here was a soul who went through life, talking about memento mori and how we all die one day. I started praying the sorrowful mysteries at 4:28pm and each bead was for the intention of one person buried here, living from May 13th, 1933 to May 6th, 2021, Catherine C. Gumieny (née Kohler) was the most recent death I found for all the graves I prayed at. I completed the rosary at 4:50pm and then walked around a bit more, brushing off a few graves to clean the grass clippings and decaying leaves so the text would be visible, I drove home and then had ramen for dinner, I took a shower, and then went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Sea, Swallow Me - Cocteau Twins, Harold Budd (1986)
