Nice piece by Taylor Marshall, a former Episcopal priest now a graduate student at the University of Dallas:
'Don't be turned off by the ghoulish-ness of Halloween. Every great Catholic cathedral has gargoyles carved into its stone work. Illuminated manuscripts are also full of ghouls in the margins. Catholics are into this kind of stuff. Why? Because Christ has conquered death and the devil. After Christ, death has lost its sting. Also, All Saints day is followed by All Souls day so it's okay to be a little macabre. (By the way the word "macabre" comes from Maccabees - those two books in the Catholic Bible that Protestants through out.) And if you live in an Hispanic area like I do, you've got the whole Dia de Muertos to play up.'
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Thanks for the link!
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