Comparing All Saint's Day, Halloween And Dia De Los Muertos

Culture plays a pivotal role in everyday life for people all around the world. Holiday traditions are part of each individual country’s culture. They all have different customs and traditions like holidays. In the fall there are holidays originating from different countries but they all come together in the country of America where they are celebrated annually. All Saint’s Day, Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos are celebrated and they have similarities and differences to each other. All Saint’s Day is a holiday that is celebrated on November 1 for all the people that went to heaven. This holiday is celebrated by the Catholic Church everywhere. All across the world All Saints Day is celebrated with offerings made to the saints which entails: flowers left on gravestones, candles are lit on the gravestones and they are also painted on them. When the people would visit the saints’ graves they would do these things to remember them and pay them tribute for making it to heaven. The Communion of Lost Souls is “the Catholic teaching that all of God's people, on heaven, earth, and in the state of purification (Purgatory), are spiritually connected and united” This means that All Saints Day is a reembrace holiday for all of the saints who are dead and how they are still with us on Earth

In 1 Corinthians 15:54-57, it tells us that we will leave our bodies and go to heaven through Jesus Christ and live forever. It sounds very straight forward but what happens after death in heaven? In all three holidays- Halloween, All Saints Day, and Dia de Los Muertos- it tells us they believe either the dead spirts come back for a day to terrorize them or to celebrate their death. In Ecclesiastes 12:7 it tells us how we will not come back to Earth but our spirit will return to God in heaven. These holiday traditions, one being a pagan holiday and the others Catholic, do contradict with the biblical ideologies about death and