Without waiting for the dawn of eternity, the present solemnity gives us to enter by hope into the land of light, whither our fathers have followed Jesus the divine forerunner.
The contemporary celebration of Halloween – the vigil of All Saints Day – reflects the waning influence of Christianity in the West, but it also presents an opportunity for Catholics to transform the culture, as they always have done.
Governments are now sponsoring Halloween festivities that dabble in occult practices, and children’s websites ‘even have links that directly access satanism and black magic sites,’ according to an exorcist priest.
In acting this way, much of the truth that God wishes us to gain, and much of the fruit we could derive spiritually from the study of religious history, will be lost.