For Christians, November 1st has traditionally marked the Festival of All Saints (or All Saints’ Day); on that day we remember with thanksgiving those who have lived and died in the faith. The custom of commemorating all the martyrs of the Church on a single day goes back to at least the third century. All Saints’ Day celebrates not only the martyrs and saints, but all the people of God, living and dead, who together form the mystical body of Christ.
 
This festival recalls the richness of Christian history and the varied examples of God’s grace. The lives of the saints represent our hope. And are an image of the glory we shall inherit.
 

 
All Saints Day is also an important reminder that we were created as eternal beings; that our life here is only temporary ~

Hey, you! Human Being! You have a soul! See that you don’t lose it, that you don’t wake up one day from the frenzy of life – professional and private life – and see that you have become hollow inside, a plaything of events, a leaf driven back and forth and blown away by the wind; that you are without a soul. Human being, pay attention to your soul!
 
What are we to say about that soul? It is the life that God has given us; it is what God has loved about us, what he – from his eternity – has touched. It is love in us and longing and holy restlessness and responsibility and happiness and pain; it is divine breath breathed into mortal being. Human being, you have a soul!

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~