Ah yes, december 21 , I was confused. Thanks!
Yet Samhain lies closely to All Saint’s Day just as Christmas lies close to Christmas Day. Sorry but you’re just trying to make differences where there are none.
Right and Christmas automatically brings forth Christianity to the minds of the secularized public.
Wrong. The focus of Halloween ain’t pagan either. If trick-or-treating was pagan then the Church oughta ban costume parties and plays.
Pagan: non Christian.Yet Samhain lies closely to All Saint’s Day just as Christmas lies close to Christmas Day. Sorry but you’re just trying to make differences where there are none.
Right and Christmas automatically brings forth Christianity to the minds of the secularized public.
Wrong. The focus of Halloween ain’t pagan either. If trick-or-treating was pagan then the Church oughta ban costume parties and plays.
Because there’s likely just as many cases of priests and parents doing the exact opposite of what you’re citing. You sure wouldn’t hear the priest at our homily today ranting about Halloween.
The secularized versions of Christmas have been just as been equally accused of overshadowing the Christian version. You’re comparing it whether you wanted/intended to or not.
Yeah well people in Japan have Christmas season despite it being a mostly non-Christian nation.
Everyone can just lament it all they want but that doesn’t change the facts much. If you want to go after competing religions that consume the lives of Christians, forget Halloween. Take aim at the Superbowl…and then the BCS!Pagan: non Christian.
Hmmm, many Parishes are encouraging people to buy Catholic themed costumes for the children, and for doing it in a different day, while other Priests are banning halloween themed decorations and speaking about the celebration. Both postures seem to be against the secular halloween.
But yes, I already know you want only a “Official Condemnation”.
When I said that halloween overshadows All Saints Day, I was not comparing it to Christmas.
Is a well known thing that in this so called Catholic country a reduced percentage of baptized people actually follows their Faith.
Things like halloween only add to the problem. People is celebrating it, and they don’t know about the Liturgical Feast.
Blessings!
When other countries lose all sense of aesthetics and proportion in order to have a good time, fewer of the drunks stay in the bars. For what it is worth, we are the kings of G-rated plastic festivals.
And I know lots of Priests, Bishops and families which don’t follow Church teachings…Because there’s likely just as many cases of priests and parents doing the exact opposite of what you’re citing. You sure wouldn’t hear the priest at our homily today ranting about Halloween.
The secularized versions of Christmas have been just as been equally accused of overshadowing the Christian version. You’re comparing it whether you wanted/intended to or not.
Yeah well people in Japan have Christmas season despite it being a mostly non-Christian nation.
I don’t know, maybe they want to be more trendy or something… and is terrible that they want to give ore importance to secular celebrations or impostures over the religious ones… anyway, many people sadly have lost the focus in our faith.
Which leads the circle back to priests thinking they’re following Church teachings only to develop schismatic/fringe traditionalist behaviors. We can keep doing this but I gotta go to bed.
Secular Christmas = Secular Halloween
I use secular and pagan as interchangeable terms, since secularism is just a strategy against Christianity and more precisely, Catholicism.
As I said earlier, Christmas was likely decided according to the date of Annunciation, see Luke 1:26.
No, what I posted was that the date of the Annunciation was not decided until after Christmas. It is not set in the calendar until approximately two hundred years after Christmas’ date had been set there.As I said earlier, Christmas was likely decided according to the date of Annunciation, see Luke 1:26.
Blessings!
Luke gives no date or even the time of year in his account of the Annunciation." In the sixth month" is clearly a reference to the previous verse, in which Elizabeth retires from public life for five months. Besides, the sixth month in the Julian Calendar under the Roman Empire was Iunius, which is now called June so that wouldn’t match up with March 25 in any case. St John Chrysostom describes the feat of Christ mas in the fourth century, but the feast of the Annunciation doesn’t appear anywhere until about 500. In other words, the feast of Christmas was determined, and when the Annunciation was added to the calendar the Church placed the date for it nine months prior to Christmas, so that it would be consistent.According that the writings I’ve read from various sources, that date was decided according Luke 1:26.
Blessings!