All Saints Day, the All Hallows Day, and All Souls Day come directly after Halloween. Halloween, known as All Hallows Eve, is the second most celebrated "holiday" after Christmas, but in our culture very little is said or done about the feast day itself. Fortunately, All Saints Day is remembered as a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church, and it is celebrated in many other churches as well. Unfortunately, this important time of reverence for our holy ones has been lost to our culture. Mexico and some other cultures still revere the saints and dead.
"The Church, as the Mystical Body of Christ,
had gradually, through the centuries,
attained significant development through
the institution of feasts destined to commemorate
and glorify the mysteries of salvation."
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