Feast of All Saints and remember the dead
1. Which festival is celebrated on the first day of November?
In the first days of November we celebrate the Feast of All Saints .
2. Who are the Saints?
The Saints are men and women, boys and girls, when they were on earth, have so loved Jesus and lived by his teachings, and for this they were very happy. Now I'm even happier because they are forever in Paradise, next to God Church selects some of these people and we proposed as the example to follow. In fact, every day of the calendar is linked to a saint, but the Saints are many more. There are also those holy people who have passed on earth without anyone accor Gesse of them, but they gave a beautiful testimony of love to God and their brothers.
3. We too can be saints?
Yes, because the Saints were people like us, even the sins committed, but because they loved Jesus very much, always wanted to be his friends. So he confessed often attended Mass, prayed with heart sincere and lived all their life with commitment and passion . They wanted so much good too Mary, Mother of Jesus and all of us.
4. Why, when we pray, we invoke the Saints too?
We invoke the Saints too because they are loyal friends of the Lord and are with him in Paradise. In fact if we look to them that love us so much, ask God to hear our prayers.
5. Why do we venerate also the body, relics and images of saints?
Also venerate the relics (small fragments of body parts or objects) and the images of saints, such as statues, because they remind us of the great things the Lord has done through the lives of these people, such as miracles. Their body was certainly a temple of the Holy Ghost, and the glorious resurrected to eternal life.
6. Why do we celebrate the feast of All Saints ?
We celebrate the feast of All Saints:
- to praise and thank the Lord for having given us such people as an example to follow;
- to celebrate this day Saints even those who do not know;
- to ask all the saints to pray to the Lord for us and for loved ones.
7. For the day after the feast of Saints we remember all the deceased?
Why so we can pray for our deceased loved ones in Purgatory, perhaps visiting a cemetery, the place where their bodies lie waiting the Resurrection. In Purgatory are the souls of the dead waiting to go to Heaven, along with the Saints and near to God with our prayers and our sacrifices, we can help the souls in Purgatory to go to heaven soon. For example we can pray this simple prayer :
Eternal rest give to them, O Lord. And light perpetual shine upon them, may they rest in peace. Amen
