The whole problem with Halloween is that we have taken a children’s fun day and turned it into something that it’s not. There was a time when this was a kids’ day. It was fun. The kdis would try to scare us and we acted scared. They got their candy treat and that was that. Everyone, the kids and the adults all understood that it was fun and it was all fake.
Today, adults have become involved in the day and have ruined it. They have brought all kinds of occult, new age and other stuff to it. There there are the adult parties that are not so innocent. They are parties where people get drunk, use drugs and engage in all kinds of immoral behaviors. Finally, there are the sick people out there who put razors into kids’ apples and so forth.
We need to go back to kids’ day. It should be a fund day where kids pretend to scare or impress adults and everyone laughts and gets sick to their stomach with so much candy.
It’s not kids who are making this day a macabre and occult day. It’s adults. They are scary. Not the kids. We have to protect the kids from exposure to such people.
Fraternally,
Br. JR, OSF