All Saints' Day in the USA?

[Gość: Monika]

Czy w Stanach obchodzi się Święto Zmarłych 1 listopada? Tyle mowy o
Halloween, a czy All Saints's Day is celebrated there?

[kingfish]

Gość portalu: Monika napisał(a):

> Czy w Stanach obchodzi się Święto Zmarłych 1 listopada?

Nie.



Tyle mowy o
> Halloween, a czy All Saints's Day is celebrated there?
'
Fajne zdnie:-)

pzdr

[Gość: Tamtejszy]

Halloween to "święto" popularne, ludowe, coś jak nasze wianki. Wszystkich
świętych to święto kościelne, obowiązkowe. Zaduszki, a raczej Święto Zmarłych
to święto świeckie obchodzone w ostani poniedziałek maja, Memorial Day.

[Gość: Monika]

bardzo, bardzo thanks!!!!

[Gość: Tamtejszy]

Jak to bardzo, bardzo miło zobaczyć śliczne podziękowanie!

[Gość: awalk]

This is an article from the last year NWE
What do you think? Do you agree with all author's statements?


'Remember,
Remember...
This week?s NWE gets published on a
pretty special day in Poland, one on which
even the supermarkets close down and the
even normally high road accident rate
breaks all limits.
All Saints? Day is perhaps the most serious
and most widely celebrated holiday in what
remains one of the most Catholic countries
in Europe. Interestingly enough, its popularity
stems from the custom of worshipping
ones ancestors, which in Poland
dates back to pre-Christian times, rather
than the much later Catholic influences.
At any rate, if you find time on Friday
evening, its more than worthwhile visiting a
cemetery to watch hundreds of burning
candles gliding through the cold and
gloomy weather. Add all of that to the
smell of fallen leaves and the eerie quality
around Poland?s largest cemetaries, and
the whole thing can be as moving an
experience for onlookers as those making
their way to family graves. Just for a day
the country is filled with fields of fire, and
clouds of heavy, greasy smoke.
Even if most of these candles were bought
at a special ?remember your beloved? sale
in one of the giant retail chains, even if
youngsters are gradually being converted
to pumpkin lanterns and dressing up US
Halloween-style, All Saints? Day is still the
best of holidays, if only for those seas of
candles. If you?re looking for the key to the
Polish soul, you may find it somewhere
here, in between those graves, among the
families, who reunite only once a year to
exchange the usual meaningless greetings.
The past haunts this country every
day. One cannot escape it. During elections,
parliamentary debates, political discussions,
and late-night conversations over
a bottle of vodka, it often pops up in an
uncontrolled manner. The fear of betrayal,
constant distrust, and the victim syndrome,
to a large extent make a substance of the
Polish consciousness. November 1st has a
cathartic, purifying quality, when the entire
country comes to terms with its memories.
It?s not about religion nor politics, but
something indelibly personal and relatively
uncorrupted.
Make it an ethnographic excursion.
Go to the old Powazki cemetery, light up a
candle, and observe the people. Maybe
you will learn something more about
Poland. Even if not, you still get a nice
walk and some fresh memories for the
trouble.'