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I suppose it is a satanic high holy day, but it is also the Eve of All Saints. We celebrate All Saints' Eve with great joy. We dress up as our favorite Biblical characters or saints from later periods. My husband dresses up like St. Patrick which always throws newcomers, and I like to dress up as St. Hilda of Whitby or as St. Briege (Bridget).

We carve a cross into pumpkins that we put out on the stoop and down the front walk with candles alight in them, and we light a sign in the front yard that says, "No ghosts here but the Holy Ghost."

We give the children who come a little gift bag with some candy but also a New Testament, some holy cards, and pencil that says "Jesus Loves You" and a button that says "Jesus Love Me (and you too!)". We have a great time with family and friends. And over the years many of our Catholic and other Christian friends have taken up the practice and made it their own.

we light a sign in the front yard that says, "No ghosts here but the Holy Ghost."

I love that idea! It's wonderful.

To be honest, I have never ever heard of the idea of Halloween being a day of celebrating Satan.

I can't find anywhere that it was ever part of our Celtic culture. Laughing at the devil and demons, yes.

The reason the church began All Saints day was to try to offset the Halloween "holiday". They should have acted with authority and condemned it and forbidden it..

Many protestant churches have attempted to "convert " the holiday too...but the bottom like is Halloween is not Godly and ALL the churches should say so and encourage All Saints Day in its stead..but you and I know that is unlikely to happen

We give the children who come a little gift bag with some candy but also a New Testament, some holy cards, and pencil that says "Jesus Loves You" and a button that says "Jesus Love Me (and you too!)".

Beautiful!