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.
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- All Saints Day
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- A week before, some one resting on a warm day in October
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- One grave on the way
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- The cross
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- All Saints Day
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- A long way
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- The grave
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- Symbols
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- A good house to be teared down replaced by apartments
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- View from the house
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- View from what was the kitchen the the house
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- Good Neighbourhood , where are the owner now?
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…