Often overshadowed by the preceding Halloween, All Saints Day on November 1, celebrates all of the faithful who are in Heaven. The parish gathers on the cemetery, having dressed up the graves of their late relatives before. A short procession sprinkles holy water to bless for every grave while on stand on the grave and members them. I made a few pictures around that time, also of a single house to be teared down being replace by an expensive house with 10 flats. One cannot help but to think of mortality.
The Solemnity of All Saints is celebrated is, a holyday of obligation. It is a family day of celebration—we celebrate the memory of those family members (sharing with us in the Mystical Body, the doctrine of the Communion of Saints) now sharing eternal happiness in the presence of God. We rejoice that they have reached their eternal goal and ask their prayers on our behalf so that we, too, may join them in heaven and praise God through all eternity.
As year go by…