I think we need to knock some senses out of our Catholic Church leaders as they wanted to ban scary Halloween Costumes for Halloween Trick or Treating in the Philippines, a celebrating that is now starting to become a mainstream in the country and much more popular than the old-days traditional Filipino All Souls Day/Halloween custom “Pangangaluluwa”.
Our Catholic leaders want kids to wear Jesus and Mary costumes when they do the trick or treat which is stupid in my book. Why? Jesus and Mary are supposedly images of respect and Holiness, if kids starts to wear Jesus and Mary to trick or treat is it not a form of disrespect to the Mother Mary and Jesus Christ the Savior?
Plus, we have Christmas to have kids wear this in Church to recreate Jesus birth and we have Holy Week for everyone to play the role of Jesus at Senaculo?
I think wearing scary costumes and allowing our kids to wear such makes them more open minded and not be afraid of such things because Zombies/ living dead as gory as the costumes we see does not exist in real life, it’s just make believe, ghost, white ladies, vampires and other mythical and scary creatures are nothing but a part of our imagination and that kids should not be afraid of them.
Plus, Halloween is the only day everyone gets to become somebody very opposite to who they are or someone they wanna be if not themselves. It is a time to be creative, fun, and out-of-the-box. It is time to enjoy yourself and become crazy, scary, sexy, nerdy or whoever you want to be.
I think our Catholic leaders should dwell on more pressing issues rather than pop culture issues. They should think of ways to bring back the faith of those who have lost it. Find a way to help elevate poverty. And stop holing mass more than 2 hours (in our area at least mass takes 2 hours of bantering/ranting but no action!).
Now please don’t scold me over the pink hair I wanna wear and wore for Trick or Treating or that bloody scary face I want to wear at a Halloween party I plan to attend. It is not what we wear, it is how we feel, we think and believe.
Instead of creating noise with intervening with the popular topics why not make waves in a larger scale my dear catholic leaders. Just my two cents again.
How about you what do you think scary costumes or Jesus and Mary for Halloween?
Trick or treat!
Stay gorgeous everyone!
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I agree with you. I absolutely think that it’s stupid of them to make such a suggestion. I have faith though, that in years to come, stupid stuff such as this won’t happen again, because the current generation in the church will be replaced by people who are of our time.
Ah! Ms. Earth! I’m so glad about your topic, but this irritates me as much as this irritates you. I really think these Churches should just mind their own business, no offense. They’ve been meddling since God knows when. I think Halloween is the time when we’re free to express ourselves, dress as whatever/whomever we want. Seriously? Pati ba naman yon? Eugh.. -_____-
I’m cool with wearing scary costumes during Halloween, but let’s not forget about our dead relatives during All Souls’ Day. 🙂
I always think of Halloween and dressing up in ghostly manner as a way to show how artsy we can be..
There are so many uncalled for, unquestioned belief and superstitions and spiritism and even misunderstood scripture to dig. ^_^ and Dave…you should continue questioning and finding answers…keep it up!