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wabrams
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What website did you print your degrees from?
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prv
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Consider these links for history of Halloween and All Saints’ Day:
Halloween:
history.com/minisites/halloween/viewPage?pageId=713
All Saints’ Day:
newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm
Halloween:
history.com/minisites/halloween/viewPage?pageId=713
All Saints’ Day:
newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm
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**The Date:
**Pope Gregory III (died 741) moved All saints Day from May 13th to November 1st to coincide with the dedication of a new cathedral. Of course the evening vigil was celebrated on October 31st hence All Hallows Eve or Hallowe’en.
The Dead:
In 997 St. Odilo of Cluny, S. France, added a Feast of All Souls.
**The Costumes:
**In the 14th and 15th centuries the French started “The Dance Macabre” which was an artistic reminder of theior own mortality at a time when the Bubomic Plague was sweeping their country. (Europe lost half the population.)
To do this dance, held on All Souls Day, November 2nd, they dressed up in ghoulish costumes. In North America in the 1700s , the French and Irish settlers began to intermarry thus the customs were blended.
**Trick or Treat:
**During the 1500s through the 1700s in Protestant England, Catholics were persecuted and many martyred. (It was a capital offense for a priest to say Mass.)
One of their attempted uprisings against their oppressors backfired when Guy Fawkes, the man guarding the gunpowder, meant to blow up King James I, was captured and hanged.
So November 5th became a great celebration for the Protestants in England (to this day). During that period, bands of revelers would visit Catholics in the dead of night, dressed up in masks, demanding beer and cakes for their celebration. Thus “trick or treat.”
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Witches and Jack-O-Lanterns:**
In the late 1800s the greeting card industry tried introducing “The Halloween Card” and since Halloween was already creepy, why not add witches? Also in the 1800s, ill-informed folklorists thought Halloween was druidic and pagan in origin. Since pagans had used lamps made of turnips (not pumpkins) in their harvest festival these were added too.
**Conclusion:
**So enjoy being an American, have fun at Halloween but remember its origins; it was a time to remember saints and loved ones, faithful souls who had died. Obviously as Christians we stand against witchcraft (“10: There shall not be found among you any one who…practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, 11: or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12: For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD;” Deuteronomy 18:10-12) but we can still have wholesome fun and yet teach our children the real meaning of Halloween.
From a tract by Grotto Press. There’s some historic facts relative to this crazy holiday.
I remember that my teachers in Catholic school (nuns in fact) taught us that there were pagans that persecuted the early believers by dressing up as ghosts and trying to scare them off on their way to church for Mass that feast.
Pax Domini sit semper Vobiscum.
**Pope Gregory III (died 741) moved All saints Day from May 13th to November 1st to coincide with the dedication of a new cathedral. Of course the evening vigil was celebrated on October 31st hence All Hallows Eve or Hallowe’en.
The Dead:
In 997 St. Odilo of Cluny, S. France, added a Feast of All Souls.
**The Costumes:
**In the 14th and 15th centuries the French started “The Dance Macabre” which was an artistic reminder of theior own mortality at a time when the Bubomic Plague was sweeping their country. (Europe lost half the population.)
To do this dance, held on All Souls Day, November 2nd, they dressed up in ghoulish costumes. In North America in the 1700s , the French and Irish settlers began to intermarry thus the customs were blended.
**Trick or Treat:
**During the 1500s through the 1700s in Protestant England, Catholics were persecuted and many martyred. (It was a capital offense for a priest to say Mass.)
One of their attempted uprisings against their oppressors backfired when Guy Fawkes, the man guarding the gunpowder, meant to blow up King James I, was captured and hanged.
So November 5th became a great celebration for the Protestants in England (to this day). During that period, bands of revelers would visit Catholics in the dead of night, dressed up in masks, demanding beer and cakes for their celebration. Thus “trick or treat.”
**
Witches and Jack-O-Lanterns:**
In the late 1800s the greeting card industry tried introducing “The Halloween Card” and since Halloween was already creepy, why not add witches? Also in the 1800s, ill-informed folklorists thought Halloween was druidic and pagan in origin. Since pagans had used lamps made of turnips (not pumpkins) in their harvest festival these were added too.
**Conclusion:
**So enjoy being an American, have fun at Halloween but remember its origins; it was a time to remember saints and loved ones, faithful souls who had died. Obviously as Christians we stand against witchcraft (“10: There shall not be found among you any one who…practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, 11: or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12: For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD;” Deuteronomy 18:10-12) but we can still have wholesome fun and yet teach our children the real meaning of Halloween.
From a tract by Grotto Press. There’s some historic facts relative to this crazy holiday.
I remember that my teachers in Catholic school (nuns in fact) taught us that there were pagans that persecuted the early believers by dressing up as ghosts and trying to scare them off on their way to church for Mass that feast.
Pax Domini sit semper Vobiscum.
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dalcent;1616018:
Very nice.
A haunted house is fake -no real ghosts, no real demons. Would you like to give church documentation where it says Christians can’t run haunted houses? The poster is not conjuring spirits for crying out loud. It’s fake -geez.
. It’s sound advice.
Very nice.
A haunted house is fake -no real ghosts, no real demons. Would you like to give church documentation where it says Christians can’t run haunted houses? The poster is not conjuring spirits for crying out loud. It’s fake -geez.
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Michael_Francis
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