Today is All Saints Day, the day commemorating every saint, known and unknown, as per the Catholic tradition. Although many of the known saints have their own feast day during the year ...
1, is a Christian feast honoring all saints, known and unknown, who have attained heaven. Halloween literally means “holy evening” from the root word “hallow,” meaning “holy,” and ...
On major feast days, they would have an extended service of readings (scriptural, patristic, and from lives of the saints) in addition to chanting the psalms. This all would be done in the dark ...
All Saints’ Day traces its beginning to the Feast of All Holy Martyrs introduced ... from that Spanish phrase to our “Undas.” In his book Culture and Community in the Philippine Fiesta ...
“(All Saints Day today) honors all of the saints throughout the church, and it was that same Pope Gregory that eventually assigned November 1 as the feast day of all saints throughout the entire ...