Halloween?????

Question

i'm jewish and my friends that are chatholic don't celebrate halloween because they say it celebrates the devil. is that true??

Answer 1

Hmmmm that's kind of weird....... Mexico is a country where the vast majority of the people are catholic and we still celebrate Halloween (too bad because this celebration/holiday was copied from the USA and we have our own.... so we should stick to ours only but that's another story). I had never heard anyone say something like this before....... especially not americans. Many of them are christian/catholic too and this celebration is kind of old......

Answer 2

NO- ALL HALLOW'S EVE (HALLOWEEN) in the Catholic teachings is a rememberance of all those who died. It means " Holy Ones" and is the vigil of two feast days. All Saints Day (NOV 1) and ALL Souls Day (Nov 2). On all ALL SAINTS DAY we celebrate the lives of saints a celebration of the "communion of saints", on all Souls Days we remember all those that have died, especially in our immediate family.

853 (AD) Pope Gregoy IV moved the celebration for all the martyrs (latter ALL SAINTS) from May 13 to November 1. The night before became known as All Hallows Even or "holy evening" Eventuall the name was shortened to the current Halloween. On, November 2, the Church celebrates ALL SOULS DAYS.

Skeletons and skulls are naturally symbols at Halloween because of ALL SOULS DAY "DAY OF THE DEAD" as some countries call it. They are just reminder we are mortall and death is a part of being human.

Sounds more like there part of a sect or their parents have some unorthodox believes. Not an official Catholic teaching usually has more to do with Christian Fundamentalism teachings. The Puritans certainly would have said yes as they where so afraid of teh devil they thought he lurked behind every bush. Halloween never had any roots that came from satin nor was it satanic in its celebration. Ghosts and Spirits yes not about the devil.

Many of the customs came from Ireland and where brought over by Irish immigrants. Such as trick-or-treating and carving of the pumpkins (In Ireland was carving of turnips)

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You see the Celts (Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany started what whe call Halloween the festival of Samhain celebrated the night before the Nov-1 [Celtic New Year). This was the beginning of the New Year and the start of winter. Days where getting shorter and the nights longer.

During the festival, Celts believed the souls of the dead- including ghosts, goblins and witches- returned to mingle with the living. In order to scare away the evil spirits, people would wear masks and light bonfires.

Latter the Romans added such customs as bobbing for apples and drinking of cider. They incorporated the belifs of Poman, the Roman godess of the orchids.

Of course today for many people it's a time to have fun many of the modern costumes have little to do with the old Halloween. In fact many of the modern American Halloween ways of celebrating started at the turn of the 20th century a very secular Holiday.


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Answer 3

Halloween originated as a pagan festival - Samhain

It has been celebrated by the church --
The term Halloween (and its older rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening of/before "All Hallows' Day", also known as "All Saints' Day". It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions[citation needed], until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although we now consider All Saints' (or Hallows') Day to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.

Personally, I think the holiday has less religious meaning that they ascribe to it. It is basically a commercialized time to dress up, enjoy "scary" movies, wander around the neighborhood begging for candy, etc.

Answer 4

Yes and no. You see, when I was a kid, and later as an adult, I found out that Halloween is in fact a pagan custom. If I remember correctly, it was started by the Celtic races(gotta love my ancestors) and celebrated the spirits of the dead, IE. spirits of family members who came back to terrorize the living. Christians, suffering from persecution at the time this became a more widely celebrated event started performing their own celebration called All Hallowed Eve. I do not remember what they did on this day but it was a clever cover up for what they were really celebrating. Kinda like Christmass. Christ was born in spring, as no normal minded sheep would give birth in winter, but Christians moved it to winter to co-inside with the Roman festivities of the day so that no one would walk in with swords flashing trying to chop people to pieces. Doesn't really matter when you celebrate Christmas, just as long as your celebrating Christ's birth. Nuff said.

Answer 5

Why is it that fundamentalists or evangelistic people keep putting down Halloween??? It does NOT celebrate a devil of any kind! It was All Hallows eve, and all Saint's day for the Catholics. I was raised Catholic and always celebrated Halloween! Still do after almost 50 years!

Answer 6

Nope - your friends are sadly misinformed, as I'm sure you've read out here before now. Just enjoy the day for what it it - fun.
In todays' society not too many folks spend time worrying about the devil anymore anyway, I don't think. Just have fun - they'll be jealous if you go trick or treating & get alllll the good candy!!

Answer 7

Fiona the Human, mixed with Ciel Phantomhive, i'm gonna have Ciel's hair and eypatch, with the clothing of Fiona. i comprehend it sounds stupid, yet i prefer to be the two Ciel and Fiona, so im in simple terms mixing it up. Plus, I did order a Ciel dress, this is not any longer gonna deliver until next week. (and this is coming from Hong Kong)

Answer 8

No it's not. I grew up Catholic and Halloween was practically the highlight of my childhood. It has nothing to do with the devil.

Answer 9

i think that sounds like a lamato!!!!!

Answer 10

thats what they say ???????