All Saint's Day (2025)

Today is All Saint's Day, also known as Undas in the Philippines. It is a public holiday on November 01 to honor and remember both saints and our departed ones. As a tradition, families will go to the cemetery, memorial parks, and columbariums to offer flowers, prayers, lighting of candles and cleaning the graves of the deceased love ones. This event for many Filipinos makes them to travel to their hometowns, making it a family reunion. The occasion is solemn for remembrance but it is also a communal event where you see vendors selling candles, food, drinks, toys, and flowers inside and outside the cemetery.

All Saints' Day (2024)

Today is All Saints' Day. It is declared a public holiday all over the Philippines and also known as Undas. Filipinos flock to the cemetery to remember and commemorate those who have died in the past year. It is the time of the year to pay respect to our departed ones by offering flower bouquets, food, lighting candles, and reciting prayers on their graveside. It is also the day where families and relatives gather as a sort of reunion and pray together for the souls of the dead.

All Saints Day is marked with religious rites of the Catholic Church celebrated yearly on November 1. The day is devoted to the saints of the Church who have arrived in heaven.