“You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. If you want to destroy a people, you make them forget their history.”
All Saints Day
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By D.D. Emmons (OSV News) — It seems unusual that our church liturgical calendar schedules two major celebrations on days that are back-to-back. But that is precisely the situation with …
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Instead of dressing as ghosts or monsters, children appear as saints and angels, joining joyful parades, games and prayer services to highlight All Saints’ Day.
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Dante’s Purgatorio is just a poem, a work of fiction, but it expresses a great truth — the truth we Catholics celebrate each year on All Souls Day.
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“El Día de los Muertos” (The Day of the Dead), is a time of profound joy, not sorrow. It commemorates the lives of loved ones no longer here, weaving together …
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In Mexico, Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) dates to pre-Hispanic times, in which people commemorate and commune with their deceased loved ones.
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Much has been written about keeping Christ in Christmas but Catholic children’s author Anthony DeStefano’s new book “All Hallows’ Eve” is helping to keep the Hallow — or “holy” — …
