"Scary kids!....really scary!".....In Portugal, children used to come door knocking on the feast of All Saints (Nov. 1) and shout "bolinhos, bolinhos para todos os santinhos......" (Candy, candy, for all the little saints")
Much less creepy and macabre.
Why not dress them as DEMOCRATS!! Now that’s REALLY scary.
Is the Church okay with the Curious George outfit we bought? Or does that promote Darwinism? What if I say it’s an Obama outfit?
I’m surprised the Bishop didn’t suggest to dress them as altar boys. :)
::rolling my eyes::
“Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total sl_t and no other girls can say anything about it.”
Oh, how the times have changed.
And Catholics wonder why people make fun of them.
All my son has to do in order to BE Bart Simpson is wear an orange shirt, blue shorts, and maybe put a little gel in his hair to make it more spiky...
...but then again, the Church would not approve of that costume, would they?
I never liked the idea of Halloween. We don’t celebrate evil or fear. And I don’t want to teach my kids to be beggars. We always have family night at home on Halloween.
I do. And when my son is older I will let him read Dante’s Inferno.
"Scary kids!....really scary!".....Thanks for the great Halloween costume ideas, Catholic church!
1. St. Bartholomew: Flayed man carrying his own skin.
2. St. Sebastian: Bound man pierced with arrows.
My children’s grade school did this every other year. It was a Catholic school of course. Once my younger son went in jeans and a tshirt. Teacher wanted to give him a demerit, had to be in a costume or uniform. He told her he was dressed as ‘saints unknown’. Principal laughed at that and removed the demerit.
But I thought the point of dressing up in scary supernatural-themed costumes, on the day before All Saints Day, was partly to lampoon evil. “Ha ha, you’re so week compared to almighty God and his Saints!”
I grant you, some people actually DO celebrate evil (in which case I would agree with Mr. Costume Police), but I think the great majority just “laugh at the devil” and that such is harmless, even salutary.
LOL my daughter is way ahead of him, she has already got her Santa Claus outfit ready
Our church has always done this. The priest will call on several children at the children’s Mass that evening to tell about their saint.
So they get catechized about a saint too.
Yesh, but in my youth we would have dressed as headless saints.
But then, we grew up on those horror comic books of the 60s.
Oh for crying out loud, I couldn’t even read the entire article.
Here is an idea.
How about we let little kids be kids. They only get one chance to be a kid, then they grow up and are forced to deal with idiots.
When I was a kid I dressed as a scary ghost, a hobo, a cowboy—with two “six shooters”, a pirate and various Superheroes.
Surprisingly, I have never worshiped the devil, lived in a boxcar while eating from dumpsters, robbed a bank and shot up the town, forced anyone to walk the plank, and I have never jumped from a skyscraper trying to save the world from evildoers.
Instead, I grew up and served my country in the US Army, started a couple of businesses, and later spent 30 years fighting crime as a LEO, detective. Come to think of it, it might have been those Superhero costumes and playing with my Army men and toy guns that twisted my mind, causing me to walk down those horrible and sinful roads in my life.
Maybe I just got lucky, after all, I was born on Halloween.... Boo!
Which means the ancient Celtic observance of Samhain.
Halloween has become a HUGE event. It’s bizarre.