I'm having a note that came in from Kay a moment ago. She's listening in Las Vegas, and it's about Halloween.

Can you please speak to the practice of quote-unquote celebrating Halloween?

We don't decorate our home, but I would also prefer not to have our kids trick-or-treating.

My husband respectfully disagrees. I think more so because he has such fond memories of Halloween with his siblings.

Thank you. Well, Kay, I kind of Halloween with his siblings. Thank you.

Well, Kay, I kind of side with your husband on this one. There's nothing wrong with observing this secular holiday, in my view at least, and it derives from a Catholic custom, the night or the

eve of all saints. So we celebrate All Saints Day on November 1st and All Souls

Day on November 2nd. And so from time immemorial, it was a beautiful, and still is, a beautiful

custom to remember prayerfully, in the case of All Souls Day on November 2nd, to remember our deceased loved ones,

to celebrate their memory and to pray for them and so on, and to rejoice in the saints on

their Feast Day, All Saints Day. That's all those who are in heaven. So this custom that we now,

there's a very, you know, sort sort of stripped down very secularized version of

this and I'll talk in a moment about Halloween as it's observed nowadays but it comes from a Catholic

custom and to observe it in that way I think is good or at very least, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

I've met people who say, absolutely not.

We don't do Halloween.

No way.

And my way of looking at it is it depends on how you do it.

So if you are, and you're not, obviously, I don't mean you personally, Kay, but you rhetorically,

if you're sold out to the culture and you're not really thinking about God at all,

and Halloween is just, you know, let's dress up as witches and devils and have scary things and whatnot.

I mean, yeah, that's a perversion of the original meaning of El Halle's Eve.

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