{"id":36196,"date":"2018-10-30T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=36196"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:59:39","slug":"bringing-the-saints-back-to-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2018\/10\/30\/bringing-the-saints-back-to-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing the Saints back to Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image animation=”off” sticky=”off” force_fullwidth=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.17.2″ src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/article_marchofsaint3.jpg” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”||30px|” _builder_version=”3.17.2″]\n

The March of Saints primarily is a Christ-centered way of celebrating Halloween, and an avenue of catechizing the kids at an early age, and families, about the lives of the saints.\u00a0 Photo:\u00a0Mary Joy Hacutina Gutlay<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.17.2″]\n

This is the time of year when many Catholics ask themselves if it is ok to celebrate Halloween. To bring back the true meaning of “Holy Eve”, we should offer ourselves participating on the upcoming March of Saints, as we remember to keep All Saints Day holy.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, we would also like to invite each one of you, in your own life and in your initiatives, to truly work so that this celebration, in its authentic sense, become once again central in the culture around you.\u00a0For years now, All Saints Day has been hijacked, put into timeout by the culture\u2019s \u201cold self\u201d that would rather divert themselves with horror.<\/strong>\u00a0The demanding heights of holiness have been substituted with the mediocrity or even with the rejection of such an ideal, representing a sort of division of our humanity, and the destiny which God has bestowed on us.<\/p>\n

The idea is not so much to go out and to condemn the mistaken costumes that have arisen, rather to keep a critical approach towards them, to work so that the authentic meaning prevail and take root in the lives of others. Amen.<\/p>\n

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Let us bring back the true meaning of “Holy Eve” or “Hollow Eve” known today as Halloween in which actually refer to holy night before All Saints Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,31,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic-faith","category-evangelization","category-feast-and-solemnities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-9pO","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/article_marchofsaints.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36204,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36196\/revisions\/36204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}