Today, 2 November is the All Souls Day. It’s the day to honor our dear departed ones as well as friends who have already rested in peace. Although I made it a point in visiting the graveyard of my family when I go home on vacation, it’s the nth years that I haven’t been in the country to celebrate the event. All Souls Day is a low key event in my family. We celebrate their memories and pray for their souls.
Working for almost a decade in the Kingdom of Sands has its ups and downs. Family celebration like the All Souls Day is missed. Worst, you can’t even practice it openly. But I don’t think you need to be open in honoring your dead. A simple prayer and lighting a candle will do, I guess. The most important thing is your prays for them.
The Chinese people believe that when you take good care of your ancestors, they’ll take good care of you in return. I think that’s the reason why most of our Tsinoy friends are rich. They’re blessed by their ancestors. That’s also the reason why China, the once sleeping giant in the east is now the riches country in the world.
There’s nothing wrong in following our culture. Most of the time, the teachings of the olds have wisdom. We don’t even have to follow our culture for us to honor our dead. If we really love our family members who have rested in peace, we’ll honor them and pray for the eternal repose of their souls.
2 comments:
in UK, they dont have these traditions of remembering the dead. What for? We must look after the living ones, not the dead ones whom do not even feel our visits to thier grave bec when a person dies, theres no feelings anymore bec they are dead. Like dead leaves, they do not have emotions, hatred nor vengeance. Dead are dead. But they were kept alive by tradition, tradition, and tradition...Silly but there it is...
I agree.. it's the same in Muslim Countries like Saudi Arabia.. dead are forgotten because they're believed to be with Allah.. grave sites here have no tombstones.. just dirt and sands.. no nothing.. not even a puntod.
Gravesites dito ay may mataas na pader.. surprisingly, I didn't get the eery feeling ..
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