Jack of Harts

The Catholic Church celebrates saints on All Saints’ Day and other departed souls on the next day, called All Souls’ Day. Other Christian denominations do not recognize the Catholic Saints, so they tend to celebrate all departed souls on one or both days. In addition to the ceremonies I noted for All Saints’ Day, common ways of observing All Souls’ Day include ringing bells, lighting candles, and cooking and sharing soul cakes. People leave food out for the dead to eat, have pilgrimages to graveyards to visit dead relatives, and decorated the graves. It is more of an observance than a celebration based on what I’ve read. I’ve never celebrated it, and didn’t even knew it existed until I did some in depth research on All Saints’ Day while preparing to write yesterday’s post. I found All Souls’ Day rather interesting and wanted to share it with you as well.