All Souls Day

For Get Pushed this week Mary and I had reciprical challenges to somehow mark "All Souls Day" which occurs on November 2nd.
All Souls Day is the day when we remember with love, and varying rituals, all of our family members who have passed away. Some like the people of Mexico have parades, feasts and other elaborate celebrations to mark "The Day of the Dead". We in the UK are generally far more restrained and perhaps inhibited from such "improper goings on" as I heard one particular stuffy gentleman called them. Personally I wish we would find it in ourselves to at least celebrate this feast more generally than we do.
My own day consists of reading that great love poem The Song of Soloman, praying for those who I love and spending some quiet time just being thoughtful of my forbears.
The post card is of an icon by Peter Murphy in Hereford Cathedral of St. Anne (the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Mary herself and Jesus.

[Andrew-Bede Allsop]

@dkbarnett Here you are Mary, hope you like it.

[Susan Wakely]

Nice representation.

[Christine Sztukowski]

Wonderful presentation and reminded

[Kathy]

A dignified way to portray All Souls (or Saints as we call it in the US Presbyterian Church) Day.

[Mary Siegle]

Beautiful! Perfect response to the challenge.

[Mary Siegle]

@randystreat I don't know much of anything about the calendar of the Presbyterian Church. Our Catholic church has All Saints Day (November 1) and also All Souls Day (November 2) You have the one feast combined?

[Kathy]

@mcsiegle Only one is celebrated at church and it's the Sunday on or after Nov 1. I learned today that "saints" are the dead and "souls" are all of us. Not a huge celebration but and signified one with the announcing of the names of those who have passed in the past year, lighting a candle and ringing of a bell.