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Halloween
Topic Started: Friday, 26. October 2007, 13:06 (968 Views)
Angus Toanimo
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artemis836
Tuesday, 20. October 2009, 02:24
With October 31st approaching I was wondering.

What do you think?

Is Halloween evil or is it just a fun holiday for the kids to get dressed up and eat candy.

I always celebrated it as a kid and was intending on taking my kids out for treats (one of these days).

Thoughts?
It's evil. It has Protestant origins with Catholic suffering. Any good Catholic would steer clear of "Hallowe'en" and the associated rubbish that goes with it. Same with November 5th, yet another anti-Catholic Protestant invention that sadly many Catholics particpate in.

Both are the Devil's work.
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Patrick
Tuesday, 20. October 2009, 17:29
Same with November 5th, yet another anti-Catholic Protestant invention that sadly many Catholics particpate in.
I thought you would be less than amused with the remarks I posted earlier about Guy Fawkes from the minister :rofl:
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Tuesday, 20. October 2009, 17:38
Patrick
Tuesday, 20. October 2009, 17:29
Same with November 5th, yet another anti-Catholic Protestant invention that sadly many Catholics particpate in.
I thought you would be less than amused with the remarks I posted earlier about Guy Fawkes from the minister :rofl:
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Patrick
Tuesday, 20. October 2009, 17:29
It's evil. It has Protestant origins with Catholic suffering. Any good Catholic would steer clear of "Hallowe'en" and the associated rubbish that goes with it. Same with November 5th, yet another anti-Catholic Protestant invention that sadly many Catholics particpate in.

Both are the Devil's work.
The Devil's work?

Come now that seems a tad on the extreme side.

If little Mary Sue and Tommy want to dress up like Cinderella and Superman and get some candy I hardly see that as the work of the prince of darkness.

Obviously, like anything, it can be taken to a very dark place. If this is something that starts to become an obsession and feeds a love for the occult then I agree with you.

But I don't think the majority of Halloween celebrations have anything to do with real occultism, more with just having a few good frights.
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sumermamma

Holloween origins check this out-
Seems the Druids get the credit.
http://www.neopagan.net/Halloween-Origins.html

I have been told the secularists have adopted Halloween as their "holiday."
Edited by sumermamma, Wednesday, 21. October 2009, 20:38.
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Richard Hannay.

Harmless childish fun and games? I used to enjoy bob apple and scaring my little sister but I new nothing of the roots or darker traditions, whitches and wizards were fun. I think the moderen commertial vertion and "Trick or Treat" is a long way removed from the fun and games my family had and like Christmas has been transformed into a money spinner so has halloween and there in lies the harm and the danger.
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tomais

Here in Edinburgh halloeen is being marginalised as the Christmas decorative celebrations are already being lit !
halloween is being swamped in holloy,( perhaps a coincidence-re Celtic culture); colourfull empty ribbon tied boxes under the plethora of tinsel glittering wee lamps.
Yes indeed a change.
Perhaps " dooking" for granny smiths still takes place-guising? Not for the last four years-those children are in the " clubs" tanking up and perhaps "smoking".
This is known here as commercialism- the wallet debit card festival of the buy now pay for it in the years to come.
The Devil perhaps is lurking ahint the big black bucking bronco as seen on telly adverts.
Off now-13.25 hours as Bishop Conti is slumming here in Edinburgh on Church maintainace solutions.
Finally as is still said-Deil tak the hindmost!
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sumermamma

Last night I met my son, his wife and my 7 y/o and 2y/o grandchildren at the Mall for Malloween. It was an experience. The Mall was brightly lit. The crowd of people and children was amazing and, yes, most of the shops were giving out treats. Dairy Queen, a soft ice cream place, was handing out 50% off coupons so you must know we used them as soon as the kids tired of Trick and Treating. I could not help but think a child predator could pull off an abduction here. What a sad world we live in.
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When I was a boy in the 1930s Halloween was sometimes mentioned but there was nothing like the palavar there is now. These days it is a mixture of intended fun but on the fringe there is the danger of something worse. I wouldn't encourage it.
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PJD

"I wouldn't encourage it."

I wouldn't buy into it at all Derek. It's all about money - the hype an American imput.

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garfield

I don't let my children go 'trick or treating' but do get some sweets in for their friends who call on us, they have had a fancy dress disco at school and go to various 'halloween' parties with friends.
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Putting the "Fun Dame" into Fundamentalist
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The Vatican attempted to put a brake on the growing popularity of Halloween yesterday, branding it anti-Christian and dangerous.
The condemnation follows criticism from Catholic bishops who this week urged parents not to let their children dress up as ghosts and goblins.
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But in an article entitled The Dangerous Messages of Halloween, the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano quoted liturgical expert Joan Maria Canals as saying: 'Halloween has an undercurrent of occultism and is absolutely anti-Christian.'
Father Canals urged parents 'to be aware of this and try to direct the meaning of the feast towards wholesomeness and beauty rather than terror, fear and death'.
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Aldo Bonaiuto, head of the Catholic Church's anti-occult and sect unit, warned parents of the dangers to children and said the event 'promotes the culture of death'.
He added: 'Halloween pushes new generations towards a mentality of esoteric magic and it attacks sacred and spiritual values through a devious initiation to the art and images of the occult. At best, it gives a big helping hand to consumerism and materialism.'
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The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey at Whitby, one of England's most important historic Christian sites, has the reputation of being a place of horror and ghosts, a "must-see" attraction for Hallowe'en. The devil is a master of deception, Whitby Abbey is a holy place. Now, people are being fooled by the "joke" of the ghost of Saint Hilda, the Abbeys founder, appearing at Hallowe'en.


According to the Daily Mail "A Grand Day Out: Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire

WHY GO?

Because it's a rule at Halloween, next Saturday, that you find a spooky, atmospheric ruin and make yourself think scary thoughts. It worked for Bram Stoker, who used the abbey as the backdrop for Dracula.

THAT'S A LITTLE TOO SCARY

Really? Then you will probably want to avoid the gorier excesses of the three days of Halloween re-enactments going on there from Thursday to Saturday - from a Victorian hangman, complete with gallows, to a night-time gothic funeral procession.

ACTUALLY, THAT SOUNDS QUITE FUN...

Now you're talking. It's all part of a Victorian Gothic extravaganza. And did I mention the storytelling, rifle shooting and dashing highwayman?
Whitby Abbey

Spooky: Spend Fright Night learning about Whitby Abbey's dark past

NOT SURE - I WAS STILL WORRIED ABOUT DRACULA

Please don't. Try some uplifting thoughts about the ghosts of loving nuns.

LOVING NUNS?

Well, one in particular - St Hilda founded the abbey in AD 657 and is said to have loved it so much that she couldn't leave. Supposedly, she appears to young lovers - and, according to local folklore, scares off birds.

WHAT IF SHE DOESN'T APPEAR?

Well, apart from finding a new lover, you might console yourself in the award-winning visitor centre in the 1672 mansion on the site, once owned by the Cholmley family. Lots of interactive stuff for adults and children. And the view of Whitby Harbour is tremendous. There are 199 steps down to get there.[/quote]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1222859/A-Grand-Day-Out-Whitby-Abbey-North-Yorkshire.html


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If you go to Boston Catholic TV www.catholictv.com you will find access (for the next two or three days) to a Holy Mass for the Eve of All Saints. The congregation is a class of first year schoolchildren and they were dressed as saints. Instead of a Sermon they all came to the microphone and said who they were and their feast day and occasionally just a few words about the saint. The Holy Mass must, in fact, have been offered yesterday because they would, I hope be all asleep in bed when I saw it.
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Richard Hannay.

Well the night has arrived and the small army of witche, deamons, vampires, ghosts and gouls has been knocking at my door and i have dolled out a fair sellection of sweets and the neigbourghood is in a party mood. Sometimes one can get to deep into these things, tommorrow a few kids will be sorry they ate to many sweets and a few of my neigbours will be nursing hangovers, and I shall be at mass, it may not be right but it is the way things are. I could of course have batterned down the hatches and been the old scrouge that lives at the end of of the lane. I shall let the Good Lord put it on the list and work it out when my time come to account for my life.
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