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November 1 is All Saints Day and November 2 is All Saints Day.
PHOTO GALLERY. All Saints Day and All Saints Day
On November 1, Pope Boniface IV declared the liturgical feast of remembrance of the saints at the beginning of the 7th century. Pope Gregory IV added this celebration in 998 with a second in November to commemorate all the dead.
All the saints and the dead are honored
Speaking to the news portal tv3.lt, ethnologist Eglė Valentė realizes that Lithuanians have recently been visiting their nearby graves on days off, that is, on Saturdays or Sundays. However, according to ancient customs, our ancestors visited the graves of their loved ones on November 2.
“The first of November is All Saints’ Day. It is a Christian festival where all the saints are commemorated. On this day they go to church and ask for your help, grace. People ask for it through prayer.
And here, on November 2, we mention Late Night. Afternoon is the oldest tradition of visiting the dead of our ancestors ”, explains the ethnologist.
The custom of lighting a candle is not that old
It is important to note that it was Late which used to be called Longitudes. The ethnologist points out that the Period of Longitude is quite wide, it extends from the autumn equinox to November.
“We are more used to the Day of the Dead than to the Longitudes, and it is on this day that we come to visit the graves of the dead”, stresses E. Valentė and points out that carrying a candle to nearby graves is not such an ancient custom In our country. By the way, E. Valentė says that there is nothing terrible about visiting the graves of loved ones before, the most important thing is that we do it sincerely and with an open heart.
“The custom of lighting a candle is not very old. But still the light, the flame, used to be in the form of bonfires, which lit the graves of our loved ones like candles.
Was it like a bridge between the dead or a desire to light their way? I think all the intentions here are important and interesting. The most important thing is that we gather at the graves of our loved ones and not only in our relatives, but also in the graves of our teachers, important people, from whom we have inherited customs, language, culture. We are its continuity ”.
The ethnologist points out that any visit to the graves, their arrangement and the lighting of a candle is in itself a welcome and wonderful action.
Communicated with the dead through food
Although it is notable that now the tradition of family lunch or dinner has gradually disappeared on Late Day, E. Valentė tells us that sharing food with family on Late Day was especially important to our ancestors.
After all, this is how, according to the ethnologist, the concordance between the living and the dead who have already left this world was demonstrated. Lithuanians “set tables” not only at home, but also in cemeteries, where they gather by the graves of their loved ones and gladly remember them.
“It was believed that with respect and sharing food, they would not only express grace to the dead, but would also ask for the things they needed. In ancient times, All Souls coincided with the completion of the harvest, so ghosts and other deities were thanked for the harvest. All that eating and celebrating in the cemetery had the objective of making the connection felt ”, the interviewee is convinced.
For Latter-day Saints, Lithuanians also chose special dark dishes, as if calling them ghost food. Such dishes, according to E. Valentė, were yuka dark blood soup, blood peas, buckwheat dishes, borscht soup. Such dark food, according to the ethnologist, was associated by the ancestors with the dark season.
Prayers and kindness help ghosts
Although it was believed and believed that people left this world in the form of ghosts and entered the afterlife, our ancestors nevertheless believed that sometimes the ghosts of our loved ones can remain in the world of the living.
The ethnologist says that in such cases, people helped the ghosts to leave the world with their good works, kindness and prayers, or by completing those works that the deceased did not achieve.
“Through our prayers and benevolence, we can help ghosts to climb higher and travel on a further spiritual journey,” says the interlocutor.
E. Valentė adds that by behaving wonderfully and helping ghosts, we expect the same from our loved ones: “We hope that after death we will feel a good relationship with our loved ones, we will hear the prayers for us, who will help us on our journey beyond”.
The answer is sometimes found in graves too.
And yet, although some people don’t believe in things like ghosts or the world of the dead at all, and sometimes they don’t understand things like visiting graves at all, Valentine just smiles because we’ve probably all heard stories of the dead being helped by the dead. And that, according to her, is not a secret or news.
“It is no secret or news here that if I need an answer to a question that I cannot understand, there is actually a relationship with the dead that can give us that answer.
That answer can also come during a dream, through a relationship with a deceased mother, father, or master relative. The answer can come in that relationship with the dead, and many things happen in our lives not only orally ”, E. Valentė is convinced.
Traces of the dead – in each of us
On the occasion of the homage to All Saints and All Saints, TV3 offers its viewers a very sensitive and wonderful premiere of the animated film Koko. It is in this film that the relationship between the dead and the living is examined. And it also reveals that it is very important to remember the dead not only in their surviving photographs, but also in their hearts.
“We remember our dead and ancestors in our memory and in our hearts. If photos are what they remind us of now, that’s a good thing. But the most important thing to remember is that all meaning is in our memories and within us. There are traces of the dead in each one of us and that is why we light candles ”, concludes the ethnologist with significant words.
We invite you not to miss the opportunity to see the impressive and sincere premiere of TV3 TV. The animated film “Koko” is for the whole family – already tonight at 7.30 pm only on TV3!
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