Who are you lighting a candle for?

[Peter Fransiscus]

Today is All Souls' Day and who are you lighting a candle for? A special candle is lit for me in Holywood Belfast, in memory of my first great love who was murdered so long ago. The candles that I light myself are for my Father, Grandfather and Friends, Colleagues and for those who die unnecessarily in conflicts all over the world.🕯🕯🕯🕯

 

[OZAJ]

I light candles for my friends and family. Preferably real candles and not electronic ones.

I have been doing this since my third camino when a friend asked me to light candles for his recently deceased father.

 

[nycwalking]

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Today is All Souls' Day and who are you lighting a candle for? A special candle is lit for me in Holywood Belfast, in memory of my first great love who was murdered so long ago. The candles that I light myself are for my Father, Grandfather and Friends, Colleagues and for those who die unnecessarily in conflicts all over the world.🕯🕯🕯🕯

Peter,

Vaya con Dios!

 

[malingerer]

Peter,

Vaya con Dios!

I come from Derry and I have been lighting candles for decades. You have my sympathy and respect. I light an extra one now that the Holy Land may yet know peace.

Vaya con Dios

Samarkand.

 

[CanadianBarb]

I light candles whenever I can on route and this year on the Primitivo I walked and lit candles for "those who can't walk".

 

[Jotown]

I lit this candle at Lourdes as I set out on my first Camino 11th September 2014…,in memory of my late wife Susan … I have since taken this image and her memory on pilgrimages all over the World , always remembered along with fellow pilgrims I have met and since died … May they rest in peace …

 

[Keith H]

My sister passed away just 4 days before my Camino. I’ve been lighting candles whenever I can in her memory.

 

[Martin-B]

My mother, my father and my brother, also for my girlfriends father as she can't always get the time off work to walk with me and it just feels like the right thing to do.

 

[dbier]

At my age and in my professions, I'm usually down to 1 for the dead, and a second if I can afford it for the living. But I went to Mass today for the same persons I walked the Primitivo for - my biological mom (in vicarie pro) and my son's father in law.

 

[Perambulating Griffin]

My mother, my aunt, my 2 uncles, my grandparents (all), my husband's grandparents, and those whose sacrifices made my EU citizenship possible. And even, in the end, for my father.

 

[Ellen Gotts]

Today for John, my husband.

 

[Saint Mike II]

I will light them for my dear departed mother and father and a number of special aunts, uncles and cousins. It’s been a special week of remembrance for our heavenly and earthly saints.

 

[David Tallan]

Last Camino I did vicarie pro for the mother of a good friend whose health does not permit her to walk. I was going to light candles for her along the way, but my friend urgently entreated ne not to, saying their custom was to only light them for the deceased.

 

[Tincatinker]

In my traditions we light fires ( make smoke / sparks) to light/mark the way for the ascendant one and spill wine to return their blood to the earth. The All Hallows’ tradition of placing a light in a window to guide the wanderer home… Not quite the same thing

I realize that over the years I’ve made smoke and spilled wine for some excellent members of this community ( whether they needed me to or not). I’ve lit candles at shrine along Camino too. I noted that every one I lit in remembrance of one old bugger of long acquaintance extinguished immediately in a sudden draft. He always did have a sense of humour

 

[wabana]

Real candles only……