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Faithful Departed
The origin of All Souls’ Day takes us to 998, more than 1,000 years ago, when the abbot of the Order of Benedictines in Cluny, France, established the commemoration of the deads on 2nd November in all monasteries belonging to that Order in that country, celebration that the Holy See applauded and officialized in Western World.
As we know, it’s a special date for the Catholics, day when people visit cemeteries to honor the beloved ones who departed.
If there are people that only see it as a tradition, there are also those individuals who unmistakenly dedicate the date for a spiritual reencounter.
And what about the so-called deads? Do they sensitize themselves with such remembrance?
Spiritism says so.
They get happy and sensitized by the remembrance of their names. If they are happy individuals, the remembrance makes them even happier; and if they aren’t, it works as relief.
On the day devoted to the deads, they answer to the appealing thoughts from those praying over their mortal rests, as happens at any other moment of pray. On this day, cemiteries are populated by spirits, more than usual, since there’s a greater number of people calling for them.
However, it’s wrong to think that is the crowd of curious people that attracts spirits to the sacred field. It’s not. Each one there acts that way because of their friends and not due to the meeting of indifferent people that visit cemiteries just to spend the time.
Referring to All Souls’ Day, Charles Nodier (Spirit) explains that Spirits go to cemiteries on this date because of the thoughts and prayers from their dearest ones, taking the chance to give us a precious lesson: "According to the way you have lived your life on Earth, you will be presented before God. What’s life anyway? A very brief passage of the spirit on Earth; time when we can either accumulate a treasure of graces or get ready for tough miseries". (Spiritist Magazine of 1860, page 408.)
According to what we’ve learnt from Spiritism, it’s not compulsory to attend to cemiteries to honor the person who departed. The visit to his or her grave is a way to demonstrate that the absent Spirit is remembered – working as a symbol – but it’s the prayer that sanctifies the act of remembering, regardless of the place, once it’s determined by the heart.
Having said that, people unable to move, for either heath or aging reasons, can send their hugs, vibrations and care via the powerful waves of thoughts to their estimated ones who have returned to the spiritual world earlier than us.
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