I know that going out on Halloween is alright to some Catholics, I did it when I was a kid, but I don’t let my kids attend now since I have learn a few things about the past. I noticed today that they were doing a celebration at church a Halloween/ All saints day festival, but the kids were all suppose to dress like their favorite saint.
My question is, instead of changing what kids wear, why just go with out it? It’s not like that day is All saints day, that’s the next day. You don’t celebrate Christmas a day early, or Easter so why this one?
2007-10-28 14:45:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My kids, couldn’t care less, we still do pumpkins, get candy and watch scary movies and the day after they’re not disappointed, they still have their candy and some great family time, we just got done making a scare crow and it was fun.. If Halloween is ok now, why is it still full of ghosts, goblins, skeletons, haunted houses, Draculas, blood and gore…that’s not good . That’s making kids afraid of evil things and we’re not suppose to fear evil.
2007-10-28 14:45:48 · update #1
Oh for heaven's sake...let kids be kids! It's fun to dress up for the day. I'm sorry but parents like you are the ones instilling fear where it doesn't need to be.
2007-10-28 14:50:13 · answer #1 · answered by itsallgood 5 · 6⤊ 4⤋
My parents have always let us have a choice whether or not we do Halloween but have always made sure that we know what it is about. My dad is a minister so my family is very religious. The other night, my mum (who runs our youth group) had an alternative halloween night where we played Halloween style games but nothing un-Christian. We all dressed up and it was just fun. Don't let your kids miss out on a fun night. Let them go trick-or-treating but with appropriate costumes, no devils or anything. Give out candy at your house, but maybe attatch a bible verse to each one or a simple 'Jesus loves you'. This way you are using a holiday to spread God's word. Use halloween as a chance to celebrate the fact that, even though there are demons and the devil is real, God can protect us. God bless you and help you come to your decision which is best for your family.
2007-10-28 22:06:27 · answer #2 · answered by Kisses & Hugs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read an article in an archeology magazine and it turns out Halloween derives from a Scottish ritual of a "festival" to appease the spirits of the dead to not take too many of their loved ones upon the change of seasons. Apparently the "off" season of crops was attributed at that time to EVIL SPIRITS!
2007-10-28 22:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by dawn g 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in the past the children did dress up as saints, angels, etc -- they are actually just revitilizing they way it used to be. it was never a day to celebrate the maccabe that is recent.
2007-10-28 21:51:56 · answer #4 · answered by Marysia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not celebrate halloween by talking to your kids about Jesus'dying and rising for us, that we are going to live forever, that death is not the end, that we are members of the Communion of Saints?Why not have the kids dress up like saints? Why not celebrate that with candy corns and the like?
2007-10-28 21:51:52 · answer #5 · answered by James O 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Halloween is actually like Christmas Eve. The night before a Christian holy day.
It is the eve of All Saint's Day or All Hallows Eve or Halloween. Just like "hallowed be Thy name."
But just like Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday), Halloween has taken on a life of its own.
Christians including Catholics do not fear death, evil, or Satan. In Christ, we can laugh in the face of death.
From an email I received: Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up, takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. He opens you up, touches you deep inside, and scoops out all the yucky stuff--including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside you to shine for all the world to see.
And finally, Halloween is fun. Create your own Jack-o-Lantern: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html
With love in Christ.
2007-10-29 00:31:04 · answer #6 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is difficult to go without it since it has become ingrained in American traditions. Many churches have a "Fall Festival" carnival instead.
2007-10-28 21:52:52 · answer #7 · answered by txofficer2005 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both are about the same.
Halloween is pagan as well as pagan rituals in the Catholic church.
2007-10-28 21:51:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
That's sad that you don't let your kids trick-or-treat. They're missing out.
2007-10-28 21:50:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋