Posted on 10/31/2013 10:37:58 AM PDT by mlizzy
I had heard on the news today that stuff of that horrible nature, putting poison and razors were nothing more than “urban myths” or legends.
Indoors, heat regulated, place for kids to play and the shops give out candy and small Obamacare waver coupons for a dollar.
Ha ha!! True enough. :) I think the blood and gore of the saints is perfectly appropriate. Because that blood and gore was their gift to God. "Greater love hath no man than this: that he give up his life for his friends."
We decorate with pumpkins, jack o lanterns, & fall stuff of course. We don't do skeletons or witches or anything like that..although I could see some purpose for the macabre if you were doing a "Last Judgment" theme or something.
Tonight we will put all our icons and statues on the home altar over a white cloth in preparation for All Saints. Maybe light some candles or something. Those will be out all day tomorrow. Then for All Souls Day we will clear the home altar again, put a black cloth down, and fill it with photos of our departed.
I was living in that time and that was indeed true happening.
Now, if you do not want to go out and do that then a lot of stores get stuck with product, so they push the happenings as a tall tale, but it happened all the time starting in the 70s.
This was what was on the morning news today. Not surprised.
Try telling that to those who lived through that time.
There was drugs, razors and various things found in candy here in California and elsewhere. The urban legend is legend but true.
Catholic ping!
I too, was around at that time and I was really taken aback by that news story this morning. Whoever put that news report should have talked to someone who was a kid back in the 70’s.
Tonight we will put all our icons and statues on the home altar over a white cloth in preparation for All Saints. Maybe light some candles or something. Those will be out all day tomorrow. Then for All Souls Day we will clear the home altar again, put a black cloth down, and fill it with photos of our departed.That's very good; more great ideas! I was out looking for an altar just yesterday.
It really start a pagan holiday then Vatican realize that just Celts become Christians they try Christiize call it All Hallov eve would be all Saint EVE Then November 1 all Saint Day
Then Latino culture in SO CAL has Day of the Dead festival to pray for souls of people who dies in last year
The practice of a festival day to honor the whole communion of Saints, rather than that just a single saint
We had an all school Mass this morning at our parish, and the 5th grade students each dressed as a different saint. In place of the homily, each student came up to the lectern and talked about the saint they were representing. By way of introduction, the first student talked about how individual saints are honored on different days in the liturgical year, but this day was in honor of the whole communion of saints. Then she mentioned that the church has several requirements for someone to become a saint, but God makes it easier for the rest of us; if we try to act in a way that is pleasing to God and we love other people, we can all be included in the communion of saints. When they finished, the pastor told them about when he was their age, he dressed as St. Peter and still remembers how he held the key to the kingdom. He said that in 60 years, he hoped they would be telling their kids about what they remembered from today.
He said that in 60 years, he hoped they would be telling their kids about what they remembered from today.Beautiful! Very cool... Sounds like you have a great parish.
Chanukkah is a minor holiday. It's a big deal in America because it usually occurs somewhere around Xmas time and because the Chanukkah story has unfortunately been torn from its original Theocratic context into an alien one where Antiochus is turned into a "bigot" and the Chashmonayim into a sort of American Civil Liberties Union.
Did anyone notice the major Jewish holidays last month? Very few. Does Purim ever upstage St. Paddy's Day? No (Purim is actually the same class festival as Chanukkah but you never hear about it). And of course Shavu`ot is unknown to practically everyone.
The "major Jewish holiday of Chanukkah" is strictly an American phenomenon.
Protestant opposition to Catholic holidays is merely the logical conclusion of early Catholic opposition to Jewish holidays. And unlike Catholic holidays, Jewish holidays are actually in the Bible, but Catholics have always been forbidden to observe them (until recently).
Catholic/Orthodox chrstianity was, after all, the first Protestantism.
Let the goyim celebrate the Big Three!
How do you figure that the Chashmonayim were like the ACLU of today? They’re the ones who rebelled against that Syrian-Greek idiot.
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
Thanks for the ping. I thought this was a pretty good article. I especially like and agree with the last paragraph.
“So what do the Christians do?”
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