All Souls’ Day
All Souls’ Day marks the end of Allhallowtide, the second of two Christian celebrations related to Halloween (the first being yesterday, All Saints’ Day.)
All Souls’ is a celebration that commemorates the dead. Not surprisingly, there are loads of great pieces linked with death – our own or that of a loved one. One of my favorites is “Bring Us, O Lord God”, a setting of a prayer for a peaceful death by the poet and priest John Donne, composed by the English cathedral musician William H. Harris.
Scrolling through Facebook and feeling particularly dismayed by the world, especially the US, I was so glad to find this. Sobering and lovely. Then I went back and listened to Danse Macabre which I love. And now I am just thinking about death. And since I have read that we should all spend time every day contemplating our own deaths, I’m thinking I’m now in a better place now than when I started on Facebook this morning.
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