Happy Haloween!

Tea at Trianon blog explains why Haloween is a Catholic celebration HERE.

The Catholic religion has always skillfully united devotion and feast days with wholesome merry-making, something which many Protestant sects are unable to do. Our ancestors were pagan and the Church incorporated many of their customs into our celebration of holidays. If you want to strip every Christian holiday of every single vestige of paganism, then just become a Puritan, and be done with it. There are many genuinely evil and scary things from which our children need to be protected, but dressing up at Halloween is not one of them

We don't celebrate it here in the Philippines (although the malls and fast food places are holding parties for kids dressed up in various costumes).

We celebrate tomorrow All Saint's day by visiting the cemetary, cleaning up the gravesites, and having parties/picnics there while we clean and decorate them with flowers and candles.

In Manila, they published maps so people knew which streets were "one way", and they usually forbid selling beer in the cemetaries. Here we aren't so strict...our main worry is that there is so much traffic that Lolo will have to walk a distance...right now both of us are coughing and getting over the flu...