All Souls' Day

As a child, columnist Bill Kenny said he felt All Souls day was one of the saddest dates on his family's Catholic calendar.

Just vote.](https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/10/04/ct-governor-to-u-s-congress-be-an-informed-voter-in-nov-8-election/69536946007/) [daylight saving time was ending](https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/2022/10/28/daylight-saving-time-2022-when-turn-your-clocks-back-new-england-sleep-winter-sunshine-protection/10588667002/) and darkness fell everywhere and earlier made it all that much more frightening. Except, I think we’d all agree in the heat of the hyper-partisan atmosphere in which we are all trying to live, neither outcome will be true. So, you could be praying, I thought pragmatically, as a child of 8, for someone who either had made it to heaven or was still suffering. The part I never understood was what happened to souls in Purgatory when everyone they had known while on Earth had also died because now they had no one left who remembered them and who could pray for them. That we always had All Souls' Day just as