What's All Saints Day about?

Answer 1

+ All Saints Day +

All Saints Day is the day on which Catholics remember all the saints of the Church, whether officially canonized or not. It is celebrated on November 1.

Saints are people in heaven or on their way to heaven. All Christians dead and alive are saints.

The Catholic Church selects some of the most extraordinary examples, does in-depth research, and canonizes them.

"By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God's grace, the Church recognizes the power of the Spirit of holiness within her and sustains the hope of believers by proposing the saints to them as models and intercessors."

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 828: http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#828

+ Halloween +

Halloween is actually like Christmas Eve. The night before a Christian holy day.

It is the eve of All Saint's Day or All Hallows Eve or Halloween. Just like "hallowed be Thy name."

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 2

All Saint's day is traditionally a Catholic Holiday, named to remember all the Saints in the Church's hierarchy. Since there are a lot of saints without their official days in the calendar, it is mostly to remember all the saints, hence the name. Untraditionally, the day is also used to remember those who passed away, sometimes visiting their graves. It is like a remembrance day for relatives who have passed away.