Happy Halloween. That is, Happy All Hallow’s Eve. Tomorrow we celebrate All Saints Day, and the next day All Souls Day. This evening children observing Trick-or-treating, Halloween costumes, and Halloween parties in a truly Christian and Catholic way, are honoring the dead, remembering the spiritual battle between powers of good vs.evil, and having an act of holy leisure centered on matters of the Faith. I have never been against Catholics observing Halloween, as I’ve yet to encounter an official Church condemnation of it, when traditionally it is a Catholic holiday. After all I am a traditionalist, so I believe in upholding the Catholic tradition of Halloween.
My wife and I have not been blessed with children, but if I had children I’d have them make their own costume of a saint during October, watch during the same month Alfred Hitchcock movies, and take them trick-or-treating while watching them like a hawk from the street.
Coming home, they’d empty out all their candy on the floor to admire, and then put in a jar to eat slowly one piece at a time on occasion. At home we’d bob for apples, make caramel apples and popcorn balls, and light the first fire of Fall in the fireplace, siting around it in a darkened room reading from Edgar Allen Poe the poem The Raven, and the short story The Legend of Sleepy Hallow.
We would also pray that night’s rosary in reparation for how pagan culture and the occult observes Halloween, especially in reparation for Satanic Black Masses said throughout the world that night involving child sacrifice. Happy Halloween.