Oct
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Happy Halloween
October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Today is the Vigil of All Saints, known in the Anglophone world as Halloween. Rather than go on mightily against the custom of dressing in devil’s costumes and going door to door begging for candy, there are plenty of more qualified persons who have warned of the Diabolic influence and anti-Catholic bias of that, I will entertain the possibility that Catholics of good will would do well to recite the Traditional breviary in honor of tomorrow’s feast.
The Communion of Saints which includes those who are presently living (and who have the opportunity to lose membership through committing mortal sin) and those who are with the Lord (and who have the honor of having been properly vetted and are redeemed) and those undergoing purgation, but are nevertheless saved.
Indeed, this Communion is that of the Body of Christ of Whom we partake at Holy Mass, regardless of the other distractions of bad liturgical presentation and horrible guitar music, the very Body persecuted by Paul and Who knocked him off his horse and blinded him on the way to Damascus. This Body is Real and speaks as One in union with Christ as His Bride.
This Communion of Saints must take form as a reality in the hearts of Catholics because it is ontologically active in the world today as the leaven by which pagan culture is transformed and through which souls are redeemed. There is no “personal relationship with Christ” without a personal membership in His Body. This is more than just belief, Faith indeed is remaining true to this ontological reality, one which is as present as the sun in the sky and if seen as the Truth would be more than an object of philosophical speculation and abstraction.
Let us then have a day of pious reflection and prayer and prepare to celebrate the coming Feast of All Saints. Happy Halloween.
