Community Chat

[50Mickey]

@cherry   Cherry I 100% agree with you. I lived for many years in Savannah GA. St. Patrick's day is a very big celebration there with many religious traditions and ceremonies leading up to the parade. Certain politicians and merchants have tried to move the parade to the Saturday before 3/17 so there would be a bigger 3 day party and more money made. The parade committee stood it's ground. The only time that the parade is moved from the 17th is if this dated falls on Sunday and once in my memory when the 17th fell during Holy Week the year we had a very early Easter. Halloween is 10/31. 

[jackthebear]

silly 

lets change Christmas to the 4th Friday in December so everyone caaan haaave a loong safe weekend

people need to get  a grip

[cherry]

the origin from New Advent

The vigil of this feast is popularly called "Hallowe'en" or "Halloween".

Solemnity celebrated on the first of November. It is instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown, and, according to Urban IV, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration of saints' feasts during the year.

In the early days the Christians were accustomed to solemnize the anniversary of a martyr's death for Christ at the place of martyrdom. In the fourth century, neighbouring dioceses began to interchange feasts, to transfer relics, to divide them, and to join in a common feast; as is shown by the invitation of St. Basil of Caesarea (379) to the bishops of the province of Pontus. Frequently groups of martyrs suffered on the same day, which naturally led to a joint commemoration. In the persecution of Diocletian the number of martyrs became so great that a separate day could not be assigned to each. But the Church, feeling that every martyr should be venerated, appointed a common day for all. The first trace of this we find in Antioch on the Sunday after Pentecost. We also find mention of a common day in a sermon of St. Ephrem the Syrian (373), and in the 74th homily of St. John Chrysostom (407). At first only martyrs and St. John the Baptist were honoured by a special day. Other saints were added gradually, and increased in number when a regular process of canonization was established; still, as early as 411 there is in the Chaldean Calendar a "Commemoratio Confessorum" for the Friday after Easter. In the West Boniface IV, 13 May, 609, or 610, consecrated the Pantheon in Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs, ordering an anniversary. Gregory III (731-741) consecrated a chapel in the Basilica of St. Peter to all the saints and fixed the anniversary for 1 November. A basilica of the Apostles already existed in Rome, and its dedication was annually remembered on 1 May. Gregory IV (827-844) extended the celebration on 1 November to the entire Church. The vigil seems to have been held as early as the feast itself. The octave was added by Sixtus IV (1471-84).

[AngelPuppy1]

I say --- leave it alone!!!!  So many people these days want to change everything from the past!  Just accept holidays and traditions that have been around for ages.  So ridiculous.  I am fed up with all of this stuff.  The next thing you know they will want to change the date of Thanksgiving and Christmas! 

[Nataliesgramma]

Our City has changed Trick or Treating to Saturday afternoon 2-4 because Parents in the higher crime area didn't want their kids out at night...

I would like to see going door to door elinimated....The kids have a party at School....the local mall has trick or treating and a costume contest.

How many kids eat all the candy they get...I know most Mom's throw at least half of it out...such a waste.

Alot of people these days don't know their neighbors and it just isn't safe anymore.

Halloween is Oct 31st...It doesn't matter to me when it is celebrated.

[Suziepeach]

Halloween is Oct 31st!  Those that want it changed need to get over it, deal with it......not everything is done for their convenience or at their beckoned call...

We spend every Halloween in Magic Kingdom (DisneyWorld) for Mickey's not so Scary party.. why not, we're older and there aren't kids' that come by our house- they don't want to climb out steps.. LOL 

BOO to YOU!!!  two votes from our haunted mansion are 10-31

[Carmie]

Communities are free to change Trick or Treat night to any time or date they want to. They however, can't change the date of Halloween.

If they want to Trick or Treat on Saturday, so be it.  It's not a big deal.  They need to figure it out.  

[Ms tyrion2]

---

@Cakers3 wrote:

---

@Carmie wrote:

Halloween has become secular holiday, but actually it is a religious day.  Christians celebrate all saints Day and all Souls Day.  Halloween means Holy Eve and is all

 Saints Day. A day to honor Martyred Christian Saints.

It's a day like Christmas...it took on a whole new meaning for people to party and have fun, when originally it was a religious occasion.

It doesn't matter to me if they change trick or treating.  Where I live it  is very seldom done on Oct. 31 Anyway.  It is usually on a Thursday night.

---

@Carmie   Yes this is more accurate-the triduum of Hallow'Eve, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day.

All Saints Day was actually moved to November 1st in honor of the dedication of the basillica dedicated to all saints.

While there is a history of Samhain in Irish lore associated with October 31st, (which actually the calendar as we know it today did not exist) it is a misconception that the Church used October 31 to overshadow Samhain, which was a festival of the end of harvest.

Hallow's Eve (shortened to Halloween) does not have it's roots in Samhain.

---

We will just agree to disagree @Cakers3 

[Witchy Woman]

@sidsmom 

Late to the party seeing this....

October 31 will forever be my Halloween Birthday....!!

[wagirl]

I really don't care---now that I don;t work at  party store where Helloween is the major money goal---- I have hated that day for as long as I worked there --12 years--