Tag: All Hallows Eve
It’s Holywins: European Catholics offer a joyful alternative to Halloween
Across Europe, Catholic families are turning Halloween into a celebration of light, life and holiness. Known as "Holywins" – a play on "Holy" and "Halloween" – the movement began in Paris in 2002 and has since spread to Poland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and beyond.
Banishing and baptising Halloween
For years, people have argued that trick or treating is fun, and a way to deal with the reality of death and evil. But due to hyper-consumerism and a growing fascination with horror and the occult, Halloween now needs reclaiming for Christ.
A cloud of little witnesses for All Saints
Sydney’s Catholic kids reclaimed All Hallow’s Eve again this year, dressing up as saints in the spirit of the great feast of All Saints.
It’s saints galore
On a special feast day for the Church, families mix faith, fun and the communion of the saints
Sydney Catholics reclaimed All Hallows Eve this...
Kids take back Halloween
Families take on the culture to restore a supernatural appreciation of feasts
Sydney Catholics are reclaiming All Hallows’ Eve and there’s no trick and it’s...
