tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634535998124931936.post6712973173107876837..comments2023-06-10T11:57:55.986-04:00Comments on Everything to Someone: Liturgical Living: Hallowe'en WeekChristiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18107748184124761940noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634535998124931936.post-45430661736842835892013-10-30T08:36:10.109-04:002013-10-30T08:36:10.109-04:00Afon LOOKS like a child who sees sad people..and w...Afon LOOKS like a child who sees sad people..and will for his whole life..he's so beautiful..and he has Those eyes..<br /><br />I am..we won't be home, because we're going to let Yarrow go trick-or-treating, and our street is the last place for that (5 houses..no lights) so we're going to my in-laws. But I'll put a pitcher of milk and some bread or cake out before we go..with the Autumnal Virgin to greet them. :) Most of our dead seem so friendly..and we've got Relics haunting our land too..so everything's safe ;)Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943998810222103926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634535998124931936.post-76569666763085304992013-10-29T13:00:58.481-04:002013-10-29T13:00:58.481-04:00Great thoughts on this Christie! I really liked yo...Great thoughts on this Christie! I really liked your point on how the shunning of Halloween does destroy a bit of the wonder of childhood, and of course how it is such a puritanical reaction that Catholics should know better than to adopt! Looking forward to your thoughts, as usual living the liturgical year just makes life richer!Christy from fountains of homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11130888193737436970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634535998124931936.post-70211746191862379912013-10-29T12:43:31.121-04:002013-10-29T12:43:31.121-04:00I wonder if Afon sees the sad people, too. I catc...I wonder if Afon sees the sad people, too. I catch him laughing and looking sometimes, at nothing in particular. It would make sense that children, being closer to God and clean of sin, can see saints, souls, and angels. Especially little Yarrow, she is <i>so</i> perceptive.<br /><br />I'm debating . . . are you going to leave out food for the dead that night? I'm wondering if we ought to, with Holy Water and saints' cards.Christiehttp://everythingtosomeone.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634535998124931936.post-67467858327730960932013-10-29T08:43:11.610-04:002013-10-29T08:43:11.610-04:00Oh Christie! I'm SO excited to read your thoug...Oh Christie! I'm SO excited to read your thoughts on Halloween!!!! <br /><br />We're having plenty of souls wandering over for prayers without jack-o-lanterns though..Yarrow keeps pointing out 'people' who make her sad, hiding among the birches in the failing light:<br /><br />"Why are you sad?"<br /><i>"Sad..people"</i><br />"People?"<br /><i>"That people. He's sad."</i> (pointing to the trees, or the road, or the birch-path).<br />"Should we pray for him?"<br /><i>"Yes! Pray, pray, pray..to JESUS!"</i><br />Then she smiled, gave the Sad Person a long-distance hung and said<i> "Love you TOO, people!"</i><br /><br />Adorably Halloween-y, but unsettling for sure..I like it better when she sees St. Patrick ;)<br /><br />Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943998810222103926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634535998124931936.post-6613159254917739342013-10-28T22:21:37.771-04:002013-10-28T22:21:37.771-04:00Oh Molly, I know. Mysticism and poetry is somethi...Oh Molly, I <i>know</i>. Mysticism and poetry is something the Eastern Church, I feel, is much more comfortable with than we are. Reason and clarity are beautiful, but God is also deep Mystery and unsettling Beauty and Awe.<br /><br />I was talking to my son tonight while carving our jack-o-lantern, explaining to him what Halloween was and that All Saints Day comes after it, and All Souls Day after that. He's only two and half, so I don't expect him to fully understand yet, but I want him to grow up wearing the liturgical year and the Christian mysteries like a second skin--instinctive.<br /><br />I think tomorrow evening when we light the jack-o-lantern, I will tell him that it's there to lead the holy souls so we can pray for them!Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18107748184124761940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634535998124931936.post-14229330473319484512013-10-28T19:29:01.317-04:002013-10-28T19:29:01.317-04:00Great post - I was just writing yesterday on the P...Great post - I was just writing yesterday on the Protestant link of "demonizing" All Hallow's and how opening ourselves up to the amazingly mystical side of our faith gives us plenty of ways to keep on celebrating Halloween while being faithful. From here on out I will keep carving Jack o'Lanterns with my kids, but now I'll be making sure to tell them that they can be used to guide the souls of our loved ones (free to roam around from Purgatory for a while) back to our house so they'll be with us as we remember them and more during the rest of Hallowmas. Same goes for costumes - have to hide from the ones who want to play tricks on us! Mollyhttp://mollymakesdo.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com