
Halloween Is a Holy Evening for Holy People
Far from a mere festivity, Halloween calls us to look beyond this world to the eternal one, uniting ourselves in prayer with the holy souls who have gone before us.
Far from a mere festivity, Halloween calls us to look beyond this world to the eternal one, uniting ourselves in prayer with the holy souls who have gone before us.
It’s customary for children to dress up as their favorite saints, to discuss the exemplary lives of the saints, and to remind children of the call to sainthood.
While skulls and skeletons have assumed a scary, morbid and often occultish connection, the religious sister says that’s not the case if viewed with the right frame of mind.
COMMENTARY: People want to believe in ghosts for a simple reason: It provides proof of the immortality of the human soul.
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