Happy Halloween!\u00a0\u00a0 Happy Reformation Day!\u00a0 We\u2019ll be posting on both of those holidays today.\u00a0 Both have reference, of course, to the really big holiday of the church year on the day after, All Saints\u2019 Day.\u00a0\u00a0 All the ghosts and devils were thought to come out the day before All Saints\u2019 Day, since this was their last chance before the holiness of \u201cAll Hallows\u201d banished them back into the darkness.\u00a0 And Luther pounded his theses onto the church door before the big festival the next day.<\/p>\n
Can you make any connections between Halloween and Reformation Day?\u00a0 How about between each of these holidays and All Saints\u2019 Day?\u00a0 (For example, both Halloween and All Saints\u2019 are days of the dead, one recalling the wages of sin and the other eternal life in Heaven.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy Halloween!\u00a0\u00a0 Happy Reformation Day!\u00a0 We\u2019ll be posting on both of those holidays today.\u00a0 Both have reference, of course, to the really big holiday of the church year on the day after, All Saints\u2019 Day.\u00a0\u00a0 All the ghosts and devils were thought to come out the day before All Saints\u2019 Day, since this was their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[125,982,1854],"class_list":["post-20125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-all-saints-day","tag-halloween","tag-reformation-day"],"yoast_head":"\n