All Saint’s Day 2019: All Saints’ Day is a solemn holy day of the Roman Catholic Church celebrated every year on November 1 by parts of Western Christianity. The day is dedicated to the saints of the Church, that is, all those who have attained heaven hence, to commemorate all saints known or unknown. The next day, that is, November 2, in the Roman Catholic Church, the “All Souls Day” was dedicated to the late believers who had not yet purified and arrived in heaven.
In Western Christian theology, this day is a commemoration of all who have a good gospel in heaven. In many historic Catholic countries, this is a national holiday. The basic belief of Catholics in celebrating “All Saints” and “All Souls Day” is that there is a spiritual exchange of prayer between those in the state of grace who have died and are either being purified in purgatory or are in heaven and the ‘church militant’ who are the living. Other Christian traditions define, remember and respond to the saints in different ways.
All Saints’ Day is also commemorated by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church as well as some protestant churches, such as Lutheran and Anglican churches.
Hallow, in Old English, means “holy” or “sacred.” Therefore, “Hallows’ Eve,” or “Halloween” simply means “the evening of holy persons” and refers to the evening before All Saints Day, which is this day, November 1 on both Anglican and Catholic calendars. Halloween is a mixture of Celtic religious ideas and Christian martyrology.
