![]() Saturday is a traditional day of prayer for the dead, because Christ lay dead in the Tomb on Saturday. Saturday of Souls (or Soul Saturday) is a day set aside for the commemoration of the dead within the liturgical year of the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches. Main article: Saturday of Souls Kollyva offerings of boiled wheat blessed liturgically on Soul Saturday ( Psychosabbaton). Religious observance by denomination Byzantine (Greek) Catholic and Eastern Orthodox The theological basis for the feast is the doctrine that the souls which, on departing from the body, are not perfectly cleansed from venial sins, or have not fully atoned for past transgressions, are debarred from the Beatific vision, and that the faithful on earth can help them by prayers, alms, deeds, and especially by the sacrifice of the Holy Mass. Its teaching is based also on the practice of prayer for the dead mentioned as far back as 2 Maccabees 12:42–46. The Catholic Church teaches that the purification of the souls in purgatory can be assisted by the actions of the faithful on earth. In the liturgical books of the Latin Church it is called the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed ( Latin: Commemoratio omnium fidelium defunctorum). In the Catholic Church, " the faithful" refers essentially to baptized Catholics "all souls" commemorates the church penitent of souls in purgatory, whereas "all saints" commemorates the church triumphant of saints in heaven. and in Welsh: Dygwyl y Meirw, lit.'Feast of the Dead'.īackground Nun visiting a graveyard at All Souls' Day.in the Baltic languages: Vėlinės or Visų Šventųjų Diena.in the Slavic languages as Wspomnienie Wszystkich Wiernych Zmarłych or Zaduszki ( Polish), Vzpomínka na všechny věrné zesnulé, Památka zesnulých or Dušičky ( Czech), Pamiatka zosnulých or Dušičky ( Slovak), Spomen svih vjernih mrtvih ( Croatian), and День всех усопших верных or День поминовения всех усопших( Den' vsekh usopshikh vernykh Den' pominoveniya vsekh usopshih) ( Russian).in the Romance languages as Dia de Finados or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos ( Portuguese), Commémoration de tous les fidèles Défunts ( French), Día de los Fieles Difuntos ( Spanish), Commemorazione di tutti i fedeli defunti ( Italian), and Ziua morților or Luminația ( Romanian).in other Germanic languages as Allerseelen ( German), Allerzielen ( Dutch), Alla själars dag ( Swedish), and Alle Sjæles Dag ( Danish). ![]() Known in Latin as Commemoratio Omnium Fidelium Defunctorum, All Souls' Day is known Churches of the East Syriac Rite ( Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East) commemorate all the faithful departed on the Friday before Lent. Odilo of Cluny in the 10th century, many Catholic congregations celebrated All Souls Day on various dates during the Easter season as it is still observed in some Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic and Eastern Lutheran churches. ![]() Before the standardization of Western Christian observance on 2 November by St. In Western Christianity, including the Roman Catholicism and certain parts of Lutheranism and Anglicanism, All Souls' Day is the third day of Allhallowtide, after All Saints' Day (1 November) and All Hallows' Eve (October 31). Through prayer, intercessions, alms and visits to cemeteries, people commemorate the poor souls in purgatory and gain them indulgences. Saturday of Souls, Thursday of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Halloween, All Saints' Day, Samhain, Totensonntag, Blue ChristmasĪll Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by certain Christian denominations on 2 November. Prayer for the departed, visits to cemeteries, decking of graves, special pastries and food ![]() Black, where it is tradition (otherwise violet or purple) įor the souls of all the faithful departed ![]()
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