I give Viva to All Saints
Giving Viva to our Party
Praised be God
In everything in which He manifests Himself
Praising this day
I Praise the day of Deceased
For there is only one day
The day that was determined
The day determined
By our Lord God
When the light of our life
Goes back to His domain
I am a son of the truth
And I expand this light
What I say now to everybody:
Who clarifies me is Jesus
I ask strength to all beings
From my Father I ask comfort
For each one brother
By the means of their effort
The road is open
For the ones who pay attention
But for those who are mocking
There is only darkness
I value this light
Of This Omnipotent Brilliance
I hold myself in this force
Of This Omniscient King
Cover me with Thy cloak
Omnipresent Lord God
Hymn number 90 received by Padrinho Alfredo and offered to Roberval (a.k.a. Bal)
Day of All Saints
The festivity of the
day of All Saints is celebrated in honor of all of the saints and martyrs, known or unknown. The Catholic Church celebrates the
Festum omnium sanctorum on the 1st of November followed by the day of the faithful deceased on the 2nd of November. The Orthodox Church celebrates this festivity in the first Sunday after the Pentecost, closing the liturgical time of Easter. In the Lutheran Church the day is celebrated mainly to remember that all the holy persons baptized are Saints and also those persons that passed away in the year.
The day of All Saints' objective is to supply any absences from the faithful ones in remembering all the saints in the celebrations during that year. This tradition of remembering (make memory) the saints is in the origin of the composition of the liturgical calendar, in which initially were the dates of anniversary of the death of the Christians martyrized as a testimony through His faith, being carried out in these celebrations prayers, masses and vigils, habitually in the place or in the immediacies of where they died, as happened around the Coliseum of Rome. Subsequently it became habitual to erect churches and cathedrals dedicated to their memory in those same places.
According to the teaching of the Church, the messianic intention of this celebration that takes place in the whole world, stands out the calling from Christ to each person to follow Him and be a saint, to the image of God, the image in which we were originally created and for which we should continue to walk in love. This not only cause to see that alive saints exist (not barely the ones from the past) and that each person can be, but especially causes to understand that is endless the number of potentials Saints who aren't known, but in the same way that the canonized equally see God face the face, have full happiness and intercede for us.
 | Christ, we adore Him, because He is the Son of God; concerning the martyrs, we love them as disciples and imitadores of the Lord; and this is fair, because of their imcomparable devontion to their King and Master. So we may also be their companions and condisciples. | 
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Martyrum sancti Polycarpi 17, 3: SC 10bis, 232 (FUNK 1, 336).
More info in English about All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints
The day dawned
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