Comments on: CFCA staff member celebrates Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) http://blog.cfcausa.org/2011/11/02/cfca-staff-member-celebrates-dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/ Fri, 24 May 2013 14:08:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Henry Flores http://blog.cfcausa.org/2011/11/02/cfca-staff-member-celebrates-dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/#comment-3064 Henry Flores Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:43:29 +0000 http://blog.cfcausa.org/?p=8387#comment-3064 Kathi and David. It is so wonderful that you had the chance to visit El Salvador and joined us in one of our Mission Awareness Trips (MAT). Thanks for walking with those in need, specially the sponsored members in CFCA. May God continue to bless your footsteps. Peace.

]]> By: Henry Flores http://blog.cfcausa.org/2011/11/02/cfca-staff-member-celebrates-dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/#comment-3063 Henry Flores Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:41:55 +0000 http://blog.cfcausa.org/?p=8387#comment-3063 What a nice tradition at your parish, John. It is amazing to see how loved ones remain in our hearts and souls. I love the tradition of having their names in the book of remembrance! Thank you so much for being part of our CFCA family.

]]> By: Henry Flores http://blog.cfcausa.org/2011/11/02/cfca-staff-member-celebrates-dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/#comment-3062 Henry Flores Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:39:44 +0000 http://blog.cfcausa.org/?p=8387#comment-3062 Thank you very much, Eric. It is so nice to know that you have friends who also connect your family with our Latin American traditions. Thank you for being part of our CFCA family. Blessings.

]]> By: Kathi Sircy http://blog.cfcausa.org/2011/11/02/cfca-staff-member-celebrates-dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/#comment-3061 Kathi Sircy Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:50:19 +0000 http://blog.cfcausa.org/?p=8387#comment-3061 Hola Henry!
David and I were in Sonsonate on this day. We went to visit a cemetery near to where we stayed at Agape. we bought flowers from children as we entered and and found our way around, until we saw some graves that had not been decorated. we put the flowers on them and said prayers and just soaked up the experience. they were even putting more soil non top of the dirt graves, to make them higher and bigger, then decorated the earth with confetti! we felt very at home there with the hundreds of people of El Salvador. They were very accepting of us, even though we really stuck out like “foreigners”.
we loved our three weeks in El Salvador,… Starting week one with you.
Kathi Sircy (and David Wright)

]]> By: John Goodhart http://blog.cfcausa.org/2011/11/02/cfca-staff-member-celebrates-dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/#comment-3060 John Goodhart Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:40:44 +0000 http://blog.cfcausa.org/?p=8387#comment-3060 Hi Henry,

What a wonderful family tradition. I like how you describe how the cemetery becomes a living, cheerful place for families to gather. We tend to treat our cemeteries as a somber place of recollection.

On All Souls Day, the tradition at my parish – St. Jude Catholic Church, we take photographs of our deceased family loved ones and place them in the church for the month of November. Their names are written in our Book of Remembrance and we remember them during our Prayers of the Faithful at Mass.

Take Care & God Bless,
John

]]> By: Eric Baker http://blog.cfcausa.org/2011/11/02/cfca-staff-member-celebrates-dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/#comment-3059 Eric Baker Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:42:49 +0000 http://blog.cfcausa.org/?p=8387#comment-3059 Henry,

Thank you for sharing your traditions. Our friends, the Diaz family are from Mexico and they also celebrate DÌa de los Muertos,.

Regards,

Eric Baker.

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