Posted on 10/16/2009 4:19:52 PM PDT by NYer
We celebrate Reformation Sunday on the week after Halloween.
But we don’t burn anything.
Plus they are missing the Eve of All Hallows.......Vigil of All Saints Day
Most of the Catholic students have either ignored it or laughed it off... every once in a while some would wear tame Halloween costumes just because they could.
Cool idea! I also like the Fall festival themes, too.
“”Heretics roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose..”
This is another:
Christians roasting on an open fire,
Lions nipping at their toes..”
That one almost got me expelled from my Catholic High.
Nuns don’t do tongue-in-cheek!
I’m envisioning the young trick-or-treaters showing up at our door dressed as vampires, witches and reformers!
ROFL!!! Okay ... that’s bad, making fun of a saint but, I just couldn’t help myself :-). St. Rafqa, one of the Maronite saints, had to have an eye removed and chose to do so without any anesthesia or pain killers, out of love for our Lord. Still ... it’s a challenging image to view.
I don't know about anywhere else, but in New York City, every day is Halloween.
Isn't that the truth!!! I worked in Manhattan for more than 20 years. During one mini depression, I watched folks bathe in a fountain on 6th Avenue. There was a homeless woman who pushed a shopping cart filled with her belongings and had a dog tied to the cart. When she died, they went through her personal possessions and found a bankbook with $60,000! In New York City, there is a school for professional beggars. Truly, in New York City, everyday is Halloween.
I just had a great idea for a Hallowe'en costume -- St. Lucy with the money she saved with GEICO . . . .
I’m sort of surprised by the bitter representation of Catholicism in this article. It’s no doubt a little perused blog, as it has no bearing on the views of the Catholics I know. But hey, maybe burning Protestants in effigy could catch on - sort of a whimsical “Spanish Inquisition”
That's one thing about NYC: if you don't have credentials, nobody trusts you.
"Sorry, I only give money to degreed beggars..."
Me neither! Although I don’t study and write about it, I have a peace in my heart about it.
My little conservative Southern Baptist church used to to take us on haunted hay rides and once took us to a cemetery for ghost stores when I was a child. Was that “occultic”? LOL. Seriously though, I think everything looks darker these days to discerning believers because our culture is so hostile to anything resembling biblical Christianity. Even Christmas is godless. Just a different country than thirty, forty, years ago.
Is it occultic? Hard to say, but it’s a step in the wrong direction. We have become inured to occult images in our society. There is no doubt that this breaks down barriers for some people to their possible everlasting regret.
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