Halloween is a custom celebrated every year on October 31. The tradition comes from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, during which people lit bonfires and wore costumes to repel ghosts. In the 8th century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a day honoring all saints. Soon, All Saints’ Day triggered Samhain. The previous evening was known as All Hallows’ Eve and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a day filled with activities such as trick-or-treating, carving jack-o’-lanterns, festive gatherings, dressing up in costumes, and eating treats.
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Is celebrating Halloween a sin? The position of the Church is clear
Halloween used to have Celtic roots and was also connected with the tradition of Dziady, popular in Slavic countries. Currently, however, this event is purely commercial and is an opportunity for many to have fun. Not only children, but also adults dress up as ghosts and vampires, light candles in pumpkins and wander around houses to collect candy. Some people do not find a deeper meaning in Halloween, while many practicing Catholics still wonder whether they should celebrate it and whether they are committing a sin. The Church leaves no doubt about this issue, claiming that Halloween is a pagan holiday that contains elements of the occult. On the website you can read:
The atmosphere of Halloween itself is closer to our ideas of hell than heaven. Because do we imagine heaven as a place where devils, monsters, skeletons and witches roam? And if not, why play hell? Is playing condemnation and dressing up as Satan’s friends pleasing to Christ?
The author of the article also draws attention to the commercial aspect of Halloween. This one is supposed to be a questioning of faith and tradition for profit. According to faith, it is a sin that some Catholics consider it a symbolic holiday. In a conversation with Fr. he explained this. Ph.D. Robert Skrzypczak, who noted that the greatest danger of Halloween is its pagan roots. According to the priest, Halloween is a kind of reflection of an attempt to deny death by laughing at it.
After all, a person can forever deprive himself of eternal life, the ability to see a loving God face to face, and this is trivialized. The damned are treated as our gadgets, toys, random partners for good fun, with whom we can dance, eat, drink and dress up in their costumes.
When is Halloween 2023 in Poland? We’ll hear “Trick or Treat” soon
Halloween is a holiday celebrated in many countries, which is also becoming more and more popular in Poland. Its origins date back to a Celtic festival celebrated to welcome winter. It was then believed that at this time the souls of the dead could enter the world of the living and establish contact with people. Halloween has a fixed date in the calendar and falls on the eve of Polish All Saints’ Day. In 2023, it will be celebrated on October 31, i.e. on Tuesday.
Source: Gazeta
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