It Is Always A Rainy All Saints’ Day
@SIMPLYD (90721)
Philippines
November 5, 2019 10:07pm CST
Here in the Philippines, most Filipinos flock to the cemetery to offer prayers , flowers, candles and their presence on All Saints’ Day, Nov. 1 not All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2 . Nov. 1 is the declared legal holiday here too.
And as usual , it is rainy on All Saints’ Day. But rain or shine, people still will flock the cemetery to pay their homage to their deads .
Those are our pictures last Nov. 1 when we went to the cemetery for my departed father-in-law.
On the next day, I went to our hometown , to also pray for my father, whose urn is at a console by the receiving room of my parents’ house.
What about you guys, did you also go to the cemetery last Nov. 1?
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
6 Nov 19
We skipped the Nov 1 and we will go this weekend instead since we went for a holiday last week. Yeah the weather now is really predictable in our province. Seldom do I experience Nov 1 as sunny and pleasant it always rains either on mornings or at night.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
6 Nov 19
There was never an All souls and All saints day where I went to the cemetery that it did not rain, no matter how hot the weather it would suddenly rain. Our dearly beloved used to be interred in South Cemetery in Makati City till the place got too congested so we transferred them to Manila Memorial Park in Sucat, Parañaque( my uncle bought 2 plots and I bought one)
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
6 Nov 19
I pity those in the cemetery on Nov 1 because it was either the searing sun or the rain.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
7 Nov 19
@Alexandoy What' s keeping you busy these days?
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
6 Nov 19
@SIMPLYD same here, nice to see you around.
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@arunima25 (87854)
• Bangalore, India
6 Nov 19
We do not have any such thing here. But something similar to that. We have a month of shraddh in Hinduism that generally falls somewhere in September to November. For one month, we pay homage to our deceased ancestors and forefathers through few rituals.
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@arunima25 (87854)
• Bangalore, India
6 Nov 19
@SIMPLYD We do some daan( offerings) to God and also donation to charity and other welfare work in name of our forefathers. One common ritual is to feed crows with food that your forefathers enjoyed. It is believed that during this month the deceased ones visit us in form of birds mainly crow. So people feed birds and crows.
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@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
6 Nov 19
Glad it didn't rain here during All Saints Day because we've visited the cemetery with our 1 year old son. In the past years, it always rains...
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
6 Nov 19
We don't have a similar celebration here but I do go visit departed families on their birthdays and special holidays.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
6 Nov 19
We should all be like that actually. Pray and vist our dearly departed in the cemeterieseven on ordinary days.
Well, as for us, it is made into a Holiday so everyone including those who works, since it is a holiday can visit their dearly departed even for just this day once a year.
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@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
6 Nov 19
I'm not able to go there Ms rebel coz my son is sick, only my husband and my father in law
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@samysotelo18 (7744)
• Mexico
6 Nov 19
I hadn't thought about that...but it rained here as well in "Día de muertos" It always rains
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@samysotelo18 (7744)
• Mexico
7 Nov 19
@SIMPLYD Yes, then it's Día de muertos on Nov 2
We dedicate Nov 1 to children that passed
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
6 Nov 19
we always go nov. 2 because mother said that's how it's done in their hometown and that you're supposed to go to church on nov 1
i do remember in the past when children would fly kites in the cemetery.
by the way, how's your groovy auntie?
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
7 Nov 19
@SIMPLYD oh, that's sad because i was just remembering the 50 balibayan boxes.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
7 Nov 19
Yes we do too any day of the year. Although, since November 1 is one of the legal holidays in the Phils. and it is specially to enable all the people working or not to vsiit their deads on the cemetery, it became a tradition to wvery Filipinos .
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