#Halloween Is Catholic

[indynerdgirl]

For most people, Halloween is just a fun (or sinister) secular holiday that stands on its own. But it actually used to be an important part of a short liturgical season focused on death, Allhallowtide. All Saints’ Day has been celebrated on November 1st since the first millennium. It was sometimes called Hallowmas (Hallow = holy/saint; mas = short for Mass), or All Hallows. Its origins were practical: With all the great martyrs and saints of the early Church, there weren’t enough days in the year to honor them all. All Hallows was a catch-all day. The Vigil for this important feast was called All Hallows’ Eve, which got contracted to Halloween. It was often a day of fasting and praying in preparation for the great feast on All Hallows, which began in the evening with a Vigil Mass. There was also the popular belief (not of the Church) that the “veil” between our world and the spiritual realm of the dead was “thinnest” on this day. In the 13th century, St. Odilo of Cluny popularized a feast for remembering and praying for all the dead, All Souls Day. While we ask the saints in heaven for their prayers, we pray for the rest of the faithful departed, in case they are suffering in purgatory. This completed the triduum of death: All Hallows Eve, All Hallows, and All Souls. These feasts were so important that, in the mid-15th century, Pope Sixtus IV expanded the triduum into a full octave, or eight day observance. This expanded form of Allhallowtide lasted for centuries until 1955, when it was eliminated by Pope Pius XII as a part of a greater (pre-Vatican II) liturgical reform. This is why Allhallowtide is not normally celebrated today even by traditionalist Catholics, since the Extraordinary Form of the Mass follows the 1962 Roman Missal.

The Triduum of Death: The Forgotten Season of Allhallowtide

[pinetreevillain]

Death of Me Part 7

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[saint-augustines-pears]

Halloween is catholic thank you for your time

[crepegosette]

something i thought of at 4 am

[mrsduwinter]

Your master is calling

[solargeist]

i said i was sending that other one as day 31 but i remembered this post

happy halloween

AH i forgot abt this tbh

piper looks so cute in this actually, bonus if Manuel has a catholic background

[idk-tbh-idk]

The st Cassian chamber choir in silly Halloween costumes: a doodle collection

Them as the friends cast:

Ocean as Matilda, Trunchbull(with Constance as Miss Honey) and as Karl Marx

I actually believe she wouldnt participate in Halloween traditions, Yknow, her catholic side

Constance: what are you going to dress up as in Halloween, Ocean?

Ocean: as nothing, that’s from the devil(the monkey says: I do not authorize)

Penny as the corpse bride and Jane doe with Victorian gowns:

Many responses said Ricky would be a furry, so:

Noel as :

And that’s it for now

[angeltreasure]

To read the full from Fr. Ambrose visit here.

[motherdaughterholyspirit]

Me as Joan of Arc on Halloween

[pinetreevillain]

Death of Me Part 9

SORRY I’M LATE I FORGOT TO SCHEDULE THE POSTS

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[admaioremdeigloriam]

▪︎ ✝ All Hallow's Eve ✝ ▪︎

[jewishboricua]

i think that it's perfectly fine to celebrate a religious holiday while not following a specific religion yourself, but it becomes a problem when you start claiming that the holiday isn't religious anymore to force other people who dislike or don't celebrate said holiday to like or celebrate it because of YOUR personal opinion

[midsummernightsmemes]

More femme Dante cosplay photos. I'm really surprised at the amount of Divine Comedy fans are on Tumblr. 😁

I'll go back to posting memes, but this still fits the literary theme of this account.

[spokelseskladden]

The jw's obsession with jesus not dying on a cross is so weird, literally the "not like other girls" of religion

[saint-augustines-pears]

Drives me bonkers because it’s so easy to prove that god exists

[naysaltysalmon]

Is it controversial to say Soul Eater peaked when Maka and Crona became friends