A candlelight procession on the evening of All Souls Day on Saturday, Nov. 2, is being conducted at 6 p.m. at St. John’s Cemetery.

The rural Ripon cemetery is adjacent to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church on east Highway 120 less than a mile east of French Camp Road on the way to Escalon at the highway’s intersection with Carrolton Road.

Mass will be held at 5 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Church prior to the candlelight procession at the 100 year-old plus cemetery.

That mass will be in English. A 7 p.m. mass following the procession will be in Spanish.

The Diocese of Stockton is also conducting masses at 10.m. Saturday at the Good Shephard Catholic Cemetery, 3200 North Dakota Ave., Modesto; San Joquin Catholic Cemetery, 719 E. Harding, Stockon; and St. Stanislaus Catholic Cemetery, 1141 Scenic Drive, Modesto.

Bishop Myron J. Cotta will preside over the mass at St. Stanislaus Catholic Cemetery.

The diocese invites all Catholics, along with all who wish to pay respect to a departed loved one, to join in this sacred commemoration.

Following the celebration of All Saints Day on Nov. 1, All Souls Day is a day of remembrance and prayer for the faithful departed.

Catholics observing this day seek, through their prayers, the repose for those who have died and for peace for their souls as they journey to heaven.

The Diocese of Stockton was established on Jan. 13, 1962, by Pope Saint John XXIII.
The Diocese of Stockton comprises the Christian faithful in the Central California counties of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Mono, and Alpine.

Under the leadership of Bishop Myron, J. Cotta, the sixth Bishop of Stockton, the Diocese of Stockton has 35 parishes, two Catholic high schools, 11 elementary schools, and eight preschools.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com