Happy Halloween! Happy Reformation Day! We’ll be posting on both of those holidays today. Both have reference, of course, to the really big holiday of the church year on the day after, All Saints’ Day. All the ghosts and devils were thought to come out the day before All Saints’ Day, since this was their last chance before the holiness of “All Hallows” banished them back into the darkness. And Luther pounded his theses onto the church door before the big festival the next day.
Can you make any connections between Halloween and Reformation Day? How about between each of these holidays and All Saints’ Day? (For example, both Halloween and All Saints’ are days of the dead, one recalling the wages of sin and the other eternal life in Heaven.)
