Halloween

[Pontipine]

I also love dressing up. I'm dressing as mama Imelda from Coco this year.

That’s sounds brilliant.

The film is fantastic too.

 

[Meridian]

If it were upto me, Id just keep the gates shut.


Only encouraging them to come around next year.

Covid suited me grand.

I second that.

Little shits calling around with their American accents.

 

[Matlock]

That’s sounds brilliant.

The film is fantastic too.

Yeah, I love it.

 

[dukeroyale]

What does Halloween mean to you lads?

From what I can gather, it serves two purposes -

A chance for the smallies to get dressed up and go trick or treating

A chance for adults to dress up like idiots and get drunk

And that's about it. Unless I'm missing something?

bonfire at the crossroad, ghost stories and putting the fright on lads who wouldn’t be crossing water on their way home at night.

not sure what ye city folk get up to tbh.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

What does Halloween mean to you lads?

From what I can gather, it serves two purposes -

A chance for the smallies to get dressed up and go trick or treating

A chance for adults to dress up like idiots and get drunk

And that's about it. Unless I'm missing something?

Thought you hated the word "smallies"!

 

[gaffer falls]

Thought you hated the word "smallies"!

That's a pwn to the power of pwn

 

[Roxetten]

Catholic schools should focus on celebrating the saints “instead of the demons” during Halloween, according to a Rome-based professor of theology.

Fr Richard O’Connor, a priest of the Diocese of Kerry who teaches in the Pontifical Angelicum University, described children dressed up as demons and devils as a “complete betrayal of the Christian faith”.

He told The Irish Catholic newspaper that he believed that dressing up as characters such as devils and witches can be “an avenue to the occult”.

“Certainly, have Halloween parties but have them centreed on the saints. I would expect Catholic schools to give the lead in that respect,” Fr O’Connor said.

“There’s great room for imagination, you take at Christmas, the school will have a little play centred on the nativity, and the kids love dressing up as shepherds, the three kings and all the rest of it. The same way you could have a party centered on the saints.”

Prof O’Connor added: “I would say certainly make a big thing of Halloween and have a great party but be celebrating the saints instead of the demons.”

The director of Living Church in the Diocese of Down and Connor, Paula McKeown, told the newspaper that Halloween can be a time to explain Catholic teaching about death and life after death.

“Let’s trust parents and their instincts. Parents approach Halloween with a sense of fun, but we can always draw children into the right traditions,” she said.

“Halloween can also be a time to explain Catholic teaching about death and life after death and what we believe. We are all parenting in what is a more secular age and you just take opportunities like Halloween to actually teach about your faith.

“I know in our own parish, we put out our ‘faith survival kit’ last week, and our colouring page absolutely had pumpkins and all the rest, but the message was ‘Do not fear God is always with you’. So, it’s about how you use what is happening in culture as a teaching moment as well,” she added.

^On Point

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/catholic-priest-hits-out-at-halloween-costumes-for-children-as-an-avenue-to-the-occult-41001962.html

 

[TarboxBob]

Feck Rome, it was our festival before they got their greasy mits on it.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Catholic schools should focus on celebrating the saints “instead of the demons” during Halloween, according to a Rome-based professor of theology.

Fr Richard O’Connor, a priest of the Diocese of Kerry who teaches in the Pontifical Angelicum University, described children dressed up as demons and devils as a “complete betrayal of the Christian faith”.

He told The Irish Catholic newspaper that he believed that dressing up as characters such as devils and witches can be “an avenue to the occult”.

“Certainly, have Halloween parties but have them centreed on the saints. I would expect Catholic schools to give the lead in that respect,” Fr O’Connor said.

“There’s great room for imagination, you take at Christmas, the school will have a little play centred on the nativity, and the kids love dressing up as shepherds, the three kings and all the rest of it. The same way you could have a party centered on the saints.”

Prof O’Connor added: “I would say certainly make a big thing of Halloween and have a great party but be celebrating the saints instead of the demons.”

The director of Living Church in the Diocese of Down and Connor, Paula McKeown, told the newspaper that Halloween can be a time to explain Catholic teaching about death and life after death.

“Let’s trust parents and their instincts. Parents approach Halloween with a sense of fun, but we can always draw children into the right traditions,” she said.

“Halloween can also be a time to explain Catholic teaching about death and life after death and what we believe. We are all parenting in what is a more secular age and you just take opportunities like Halloween to actually teach about your faith.

“I know in our own parish, we put out our ‘faith survival kit’ last week, and our colouring page absolutely had pumpkins and all the rest, but the message was ‘Do not fear God is always with you’. So, it’s about how you use what is happening in culture as a teaching moment as well,” she added.

^On Point

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/catholic-priest-hits-out-at-halloween-costumes-for-children-as-an-avenue-to-the-occult-41001962.html

This changes everything

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Thought you hated the word "smallies"!

Well spotted Lee!

Had a walk around town there. If ye are bringing the kids out make sure the witches hats are glued to their heads, the wind is something else. It's the kind of day you'd be afraid of a loose tile flying at you.