Evening: Psalm 34; Wisdom 3:1-9; Revelation 19:1, 4-10
Christian and pagan traditions have melded into a very curious set of Hallowe’en customs, a prominent one being that the souls of the dead return for one night in the year, needing to be appeased by the living (“trick or treat!”). This reflects humankind’s uneasy relationship with death. The various mythologies we have created about death may perpetuate our uneasiness, since they mostly ignore the affirmation of faith, namely, the resurrection of the dead. We quaintly hide our fear of death under cute costumes, while faith proclaims the renewal of all things … not death, but life.
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