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Saturday, October 30, 2010

spirit means......

The English word spirit (from Latin spiritus "breath") has many differing meanings and connotations, all of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body. The spirit of a human being is thus the animating, sensitive or vital principle in that individual, similar to the soul taken to be the seat of the mental, intellectual and emotional powers. The notions of a person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap, as both contrast with body and both are imagined as surviving the bodily death in religion and occultism,and "spirit" can also have the sense of "ghost", i.e. manifestations of the spirit of a deceased person.

The history of All Saint's Day by Firdous



All Saints Day is also known as All Hallows, or Hallowmas, where "hallow" means "saints", and "mas" means "Mass". The day before All Saints Day, "The Eve of All Hallows", is Halloween.

Throughout the earlier years, Christians had been persecuted by others. All Saints Day remembers all those who sacrificed their lives, rather than their religion.

In about the 4th century, several churches began to commemorate the death of martyrs. The origins of the festival of All Saints, as celebrated here in the West, dates to around May, in the year 609 or 610. The Pope Boniface IV restored the Pantheon at Rome, to become a church to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs.

In some countries, (Spain, Mexico, Portugal), offerings are made on All Saints Day. There are countries in which the people lay flowers at the graves of their deceased relatives, such as Italy, France and Spain. In Poland, Slovakia, Crotia and others, traditionally people light candles and visit graves of their relatives. In English speaking countries, All Saints day is celebrated by the hymn "For All the Saints" by William Walsham How.