By: dodong.
November 2, 2010 & 2011
From the Spanish translation -Dia de muertos, it means the day of the dead. The Christian
celebration of All Souls Day takes place in every 2nd of November each
year throughout the world. Usually the celebration is a holiday in other
countries. The holiday is seen as the opportunity for the families to have a
reunion, the time for the family and friends to gather together to pray for and
remember their family members and friends who have died.
In the Philippines, included in the special non-working days
in the Proclamation # 459-Philippine holidays for 2013 issued by President
Benigno Simeon Aquino III are November 1 and 2, but usually the religious holidays
start in November 1, the commemoration of All Saints Day (Todos Los Santos) up
to November 2 the commemoration of All Souls Day. Filipinos are expected to be
busy a week or two prior to the celebration of UNDAS since they will clean,
repaint the tombs, gravesites, small pantheons or their family mausoleum for
their dear departed. On the day of the celebrations, people visit to the
cemeteries and bring flowers, foods, and sometimes beverages and offer prayers
or mass for their deceased relatives and light a burning candle.
As we celebrate All Saints Day, we remember our young
children who died innocently as certain for their sainthood and this reminds
ourselves too of our call to holiness, our great challenge to become saints.
As we celebrate All Souls Day, we have to remember the souls
of our dead love ones who depart from our midst but not really gone from us in
our memory. So that in essence we are thinking that all of us have souls not
only the dead but also importantly the living. Hence we have to be thoughtful
of what we are going to do to feed the souls of the living to prepare for our
own departure to be able to pass from life to death… to life after death and
have everlasting peace in the Eternal kingdom of our Lord God in Heaven.
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