November 2nd is "Dia de Los Muertos"

[Xipe Totec]

Does anyone else see an irony in this coincidence?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. yep but will be missed by most

in North America

[fishface]

2. Dedicated to all those that died because of the village idiot..

oh the irony...

[flordehinojos]

3. "All Souls Day"

Maybe those souls who can see TRUTH and LIGHT will help give KERRY the BOUNCE he needs and the DIEBOLD MACHINES THE HONESTY they need for KERRY to become our next RIGHTFULLY ELECTED DEMOCRATIC
P R E S I D E N T!!!!!

(you wouldn't be reading doomsday into ALL SOULS DAY, ... or reading it as a prediction into an era of darkaness, would you?

[Xipe Totec]

4. A Day To Remember Our Honored Dead

And bring them peace by giving them justice.


Hinojos. Now there is a name that is steeped in history. The original spelling of the Hinojosa surname.

[wolfgirl]

5. I thought

November 1st was All Soul's Day...

[Xipe Totec]

6. Close. Nov 1st is All Saints' Day

Followed by All Souls' Day, preceded by All Hallowed's Eve (Halloween).

[underpants]

7. Day of the Dead AND my anniversary

:thumbsup:

[doni_georgia]

8. traditionally wasn't it a day when the dead walked the earth?

Think we can get some to vote??? Know my grandmother (republican hater who died in 83) would organize for us. LOL

[Xipe Totec]

9. It's Traditional In South Texas

For the dead to vote. I can't think of a better time to have the election than November 2nd.

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

10. More accurately it is a celebration of children and those who have passed

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html

[Joe Chi Minh]

11. All Souls

I'd been thinking what a wonderfully auspicious day it seems for the election. More so than "All Saints" day. Because, for me the "Holy Souls", more than anything, evokes the "little guy" (little in the eyes of the World, that is, but very big in God's eyes); men and women, doubtless including relatives and friends of ours, who were prevented in this life from achieving their full stature in Christ, as a result of the influence of Herod's party within the Church and the world down the centuries; just as those same forces were at work in the synagogue and the world in Christ's day.

The Catholic Church teaches that there are many anonymous people who will never be officially canonised by the Church as saints, but truly are saints in this life, and will be considered as such in God's eyes, when they die. I see so many people all around me who impress me as saints. I can't help wondering, in fact, if there is much of a difference at all in God's eyes between the holy souls and the saints. Isn't the latin word, "sanctus" the word for both "holy" and "saint".