In addition we have a chance to face up to differences that still divide Catholics and Protestants, maybe even a chance to evangelize. Not at all. We ask the saints to pray for us the same way we might ask a good friend to pray. Halloween also invites us to talk openly about death in a culture that labors mightily to deny it. Seventy-five percent of Americans do not have a valid will, much less a Living Will or an organ donor card.
Death is a fact of life.
The Church gives us two feasts and the whole month of November to do this. Halloween is like our Mardi Gras before a very serious Lent. We should be able to laugh at the dark side and dress up in costumes and have parties. Let s reclaim our heritage with all the story power, creativity and joyous good fun that we can. Let s use it to help us become the saints we are each called to be.