Way ahead of Halloween, I start telling the people at Holy Mass, at Catechism, at the Catholic school and parents meeting that Halloween is not good and is getting worse every year (along with satan’s influence growing every year). I tell them they can have a party with saint’s costumes and tons of candy to rot their teeth and get them hyper. Of course, as usual, I am not popular because I do not go along with satanic fun. --Fr. Peter CarotaSome Christians think Halloween is fun and harmless, but since I was one of those "unpopular" moms that steered our kids away from Halloween, I enjoyed this post very much. This line is good:
I should have stopped them and kicked them out of the chapel, but I am a coward and will pay for it after I die. --Fr. Peter Carota[I can relate.]
One of the ways you can tell there really is a devil is the transformation of a harmless holiday to a full-on glorification of decadence and death.
It’s not that people are just “doing their own thing”. Pay attention and you can see a master intelligence directing all these seemingly independent actions into, basically, something that looks consistently demonic.
On the plus side though, this past Sunday we had a Eucharistic procession in the city past a bunch of houses with skeletons and mangled corpses.
Take that Old Scratch LOL
Children dressing as little devils do not a devil make. Sheesh, in the 1950s, most boys either wore flimsy red costumes with horns and tail or blacked up the lower part of their faces with shoe polish and went out as hoboes.
We are going to Mass Halloween night. It’s the vigil Mass for All Saints Day.
We have fun and go out on Halloween, but I totally get where he’s coming from. I particularly don’t understand the whole blood and guts stuff. It is really strange to me. Monsters and other costumes are just fun for the kids. But people do go way overboard these days.
Maybe I am too culture immersed though, I see nothing wrong with little kids dressing up as angels, princesses, cowboys, or astronauts and having a party at home. Trick or treating at strangers' houses, though, is no longer safe.
You're not alone. I hate Halloween with a passion.
I got a lot of grief from other people, including a lot of church people, about my stand on it and would not back down.
It is NOT fun and games beyond the surface of the trick or treating.
My kids did not participate either. I built a fire in our fire place, popped some popcorn, had some cheese and apples, and a little candy, and that was it. It kept them busy and distracted from all the other kids out there.
We were ghosts or gypsies. One year I was a pumpkin.
All Hallow’s Eve.
But don’t tell the secularists!
Hallowe'en (with facts and recipes)
How Halloween Can Be Redeemed (from Catholic Update)
History of Halloween
Bishops’ Halloween Advice: Dress Children Up as Saints, Not Witches
Halloween (CNA Video)
All Hallows' Eve
Celebrating 'All Hallows Eve' and the 'Feast of All Saints' in a Pre-Christian West
Halloween Prayers: Prayers and Collects for All Hallows Eve
Holiday Hysteria (a Christian defense of Halloween)
Hallowe'en - Eve of All Saints - Suggestions for Reclaiming this Christian Feast
If we’re going to give up a holiday whenever pagans observe it in a pagan way, we can say goodbye to St. Patrick’s and Christmas, too.
The Reverse Side - The back of the medal is dominated by a large cross. The letters on the cross are actually the initials for the Latin phrases: Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux (The Holy Cross be my light) and Non Draco Sit Mihi Dux (Let not the dragon be my guide).
In the four corners are circles with the letters CSPB. These letters are the initials for Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti (The Cross of our holy father Benedict).
At the top is the word Pax (peace). Around the edge are the initials for the exorcism prayer: Vade Retro Satana, Nunquam Suade Mihi Vana - Sunt Mala Quae Libas, Ipse Venena Bibas (Begone, Satan, do not suggest to me thy vanities - evil are the things thou profferest, drink thou thy own poison).