ALL HALLOWS EVE

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                    [Title] => 'No work, no pay' on October 31, a special non-working holiday
                    [Summary] => October 31, sometimes called Halloween or All Saints' Eve, will be a special non-working holiday, the Palace said Tuesday.
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I am currently going through a mediation proceeding with the Department of Trade and Industry.

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                    [AuthorName] => Dean Andy Bautista
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                    [Title] => Priest say: Celebrate true essence of All Saints’, All Souls’ Days
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“Do not forget the true essence of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day.”

                    [DatePublished] => 2012-11-01 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => AJ de la Torre
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                    [Title] => Of ghouls, souls and saints
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Isn’t it incongruous that we commemorate the faithful departed the day after we honor the Saints which is preceded by Halloween, a pagan ritual to ward off roaming ghosts?
                    [DatePublished] => 2011-11-01 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Yoly Villanueva-Ong
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                    [Title] => The historic Halloween
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Today, November 1st, all roads in the Philippines lead to the cemetery. November 1st is All Saints Day, historically referred to as All Hallows or Hallowmas, and has become a day for revering our honored saints and those who have attained the Beatific Vision of the afterlife.
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                    [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces
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                    [Title] => The nights that launched a thousand sheep
                    [Summary] => Call me Ebenezer, call me McDuck (Yes, think Scrooge); but try as I might to deny or ignore it, there’s just something missing from the Christmas and New Years of today. And it’s not just the child in me that’s gone missing (with matching milk carton image), or the oft-repeated phrase that the yuletide season is really for the kids and so why should I expect anything else.
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                    [AuthorName] => WRY BREAD  By Philip Cu-Unjieng
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                    [Title] => Three-day vacation
                    [Summary] => President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has proclaimed this Friday, Oct. 31 as a holiday. This is to give  people a chance to celebrate All Souls and All Saints days in their respective hometowns. All Saints and All Souls are the two holidays that are celebrated in the cemeteries. You can’t celebrate it anywhere else. It is the two days of the year when the living spend the day with the departed.


The Philippine National Police are taking all the necessary precautions to insure that there will be no violent incidents during the celebration. 


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                    [Summary] => In an effort to be relevant several Halloweens ago, I dressed myself up as No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani. It was 1996, the number one hit song was Don’t Speak, and Gwen was just beginning to make her mark as a fashion icon by deliberately revealing her bra straps under her tank top.
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                    [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS
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                    [Title] => Halloween ushers feasts of saints and souls - ROSES AND THORNS  by Alejandro R. Roces
                    [Summary] => Today we celebrate Halloween. Along with Valentine’s Day, it is one of the two holidays that we inherited from the American regime. Like many Christian feasts, Halloween had a pagan origin. Halloween traces its beginnings to the ancient Celts of the British Isles. In their old calendar, October 31 was the last day of the year. It was the day when all witches and warlocks were abroad and the souls of the departed roamed the earth.
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'No work, no pay' on October 31, a special non-working holiday

October 18, 2022 - 11:54am

October 31, sometimes called Halloween or All Saints' Eve, will be a special non-working holiday, the Palace said Tuesda...

Headlines

Mediation

By MY FOUR CENTAVOS | By Dean Andy Bautista | November 1, 2014 - 12:00am

I am currently going through a mediation proceeding with the Department of Trade and Industry.

Opinion

Priest say: Celebrate true essence of All Saints’, All Souls’ Days

By AJ de la Torre | November 1, 2012 - 12:00am

“Do not forget the true essence of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day.”

Cebu News

Of ghouls, souls and saints

By CITIZEN Y | By Yoly Villanueva-Ong | November 1, 2011 - 12:00am

Isn’t it incongruous that we commemorate the faithful departed the day after we honor the Saints which is preceded by Halloween, a pagan ritual to ward off roaming ghosts?

Opinion

The historic Halloween

By ROSES & THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | November 1, 2008 - 12:00am

Today, November 1st, all roads in the Philippines lead to the cemetery. November 1st is All Saints Day, historically referred to as All Hallows or Hallowmas, and has become a day for revering our honored saints and...

Opinion

Legend of Halloween

By ROSES & THORNS  | By Alejandro R. Roces | October 30, 2007 - 12:00am

Opinion

The nights that launched a thousand sheep

By WRY BREAD By Philip Cu-Unjieng | January 1, 2006 - 12:00am

Call me Ebenezer, call me McDuck (Yes, think Scrooge); but try as I might to deny or ignore it, there’s just something missing from the Christmas and New Years of today. And it’s not just the child in me...

Allure

Three-day vacation

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | October 28, 2003 - 12:00am

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has proclaimed this Friday, Oct. 31 as a holiday. This is to give people a chance to celebrate All Souls and All Saints days in their respective hometowns. All Saints and All Souls...

Opinion

Holloween

By Paula C. Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS | October 26, 2002 - 12:00am

In an effort to be relevant several Halloweens ago, I dressed myself up as No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani. It was 1996, the number one hit song was Don’t...

Young Star

Halloween ushers feasts of saints and souls - ROSES AND THORNS by Alejandro R. Roces

October 31, 2000 - 12:00am

Today we celebrate Halloween. Along with Valentine’s Day, it is one of the two holidays that we inherited from the American regime. Like many Christian feasts,...

Opinion