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BY FR. TOM PURDY, RECTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH
Celebrating the Saints Among Us Do a little R & R + Ramp up the ROI
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y now we can’t help but notice the Halloween displays and piles of candy for sale that have been up since July, although we were too busy to take much note of them previously. Today, as we take a break from our pumpkin spiced lattes, we can scarcely look around without seeing jack-olanterns and candy corn. Halloween has clearly become one of the most commercialized holidays, perhaps second only to Christmas (in terms of marketing and store space, not dollars
spent). While the “traditional” Halloween of my childhood has never excited me, I’ve found new appreciation for it in adulthood. That appreciation has come from remembering some of the long-held traditions and origins of our modern Halloween. My traditional childhood Halloween is still very much a modern phenomenon. Like most holidays (short for holy days), there is a religious origin to a lot of the things we do now, made up of a mixture of pagan, Christian, and other religious (continues)
