Tag: All Saints Day

Beginning with the feasts of All Saints and Holy Souls on the 1st and 2nd of November respectively, Catholics are encouraged to visit a cemetery and offer a Rosary for the dead.

Across Europe, Catholic families are turning Halloween into a celebration of light, life and holiness. Known as "Holywins" – a play on "Holy" and "Halloween" – the movement began in Paris in 2002 and has since spread to Poland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and beyond.

Day of the Dead – famed Dia de los Muertos – marks one of Mexico's deepest cultural traditions, dating to pre-Hispanic times, in which people commemorate and commune with their deceased loved ones. Mexicans build altars and visit graveyards for candlelight vigils.

The annual celebration of All Hallows Eve saw kids from across Sydney swap the spooky for the saintly as they marked the Catholic Solemnity by dressing up as some of the church’s holiest men and women.

God wants everyone to be a saint, and the clearest path to achieving that goal is loving service to others, Pope Francis said.

Sydney’s Catholic kids reclaimed All Hallow’s Eve again this year, dressing up as saints in the spirit of the great feast of All Saints.

Sydney Catholics Azelie and Joseph Harb reclaimed Halloween this year and it was no trick and all treat! The tiny revellers were among growing numbers...

They are, presumably, vast in number. Paul, writing to what are usually believed to be Jewish Christians, exhorted his audience to remember that they...

Parishioners of one Sydney parish took their faith, and four popular saints, to the streets.

Sainthood. Each of us is called to it, but it’s not so simple to achieve. Thankfully, we have the example of thousands of men...