Thank you for this great video, Heather! I heard from an ex-occultist that Halloween is a day of the most curses, spells, and human sacrifices, especially babies. Going to mass, confession, , rosaries, and praying novenas are powerful tools to keep the devil away and reclaim All Hollows Eve as the holy day it is. On Halloween I will take the kids to mass and bless the candy. We will also go to mass on all saints and souls day and visit the cemetery. We have a picture frame of names of loved ones who passed with a candle. These are great ideas! Thank you for sharing always. May your day be blessed not stressed ❤🙏🕊️

We dont make Halloween a big deal at our home, just a personal choice. We also dont watch Halloween movies especially if they have witches, ghosts, and demons for obvious reasons. Unfortunately A lot of people who are into the occult use this day for the bad, and ive heard of people actually tainting the candy with evil, so the complete opposite of blessing the candy. But we love all saints day and we get dressed up as the saints with other Catholic families and we have a big party, its really sweet and we love it. 😊

Heather, learning from you has only increased my interest in the Catholic faith. Seeing how much joy you are blessed with from your faith is so encouraging. ❤️

Such a good idea to bless the candy! I’m going to start doing that. We also give a holy card with the candy.

Hi Heather ❤ I just went to confession to be in grace for All Saint's Day. Luckily my children are an adults so I do not need to explain them. Our priest will hold the mass on 1st and 2nd of November in church and on 2nd on the cemetery to pray for our deceased. I wish all of commenting people peaceful reflection on All Saint's Day and prayer time for those who need our prayer while in purgatory. God bless you all.😇😇😇 Thank you Heather for this video.

I love that idea of the candle with the names on it for all souls day! You have such a beautiful way of sharing our Catholic faith.

Thank you! This is such a healthy balanced approach to celebrating Halloween! ❤

You always have the best ideas, Heather. Your kids' costumes are great...I love your little pope. 😄👍

Awesome ! Saint Thomas Aquinas dressed up as either a Priest or Monk as a young boy, too. Later- he memorized the Whole Bible !

I love all of the Saint-o-Lantern patterns that are out there now. Halloween is being reclaimed!

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I LOVE these ideas. Thank you! Love from Australia. 🙏💌

Beautiful video💫 Thank you very much! 🌹 Greetings from Paraguay💖

My mom always told us that we don't celebrate halloween, but we always went trick or treating. It was confusing, but when I was catechising 1st graders in church out parish did an All Saints Day party. That was the first time I saw how you can celebrate Halloween in a Catholic way. My son is 11 months and my friend invited me to her home for an All Saints Day party. I'm very excited to celebrate this beautiful feast day with other Catholic families!

Blessings Heather! Always inspiring! ❤

Heather you make some really great points. Thank you for this video! My son is only 17 months old right now but I’ve been thinking a lot about this topic and I just don’t get a good feeling about joining the crowd completely on this one. My struggle is how irrelevant the practice of dressing up and collecting candy seems to me. I just don’t think we need to join the world in making our Halloween completely secular. It’s also not a day of celebration, right? It’s supposed to be on All Saints Day. Having said all that, I like the idea of carving pumpkins with catholic images and perhaps thinking about death or making some “memento mori” theme, but then making All Saints Day the main focus to celebrate.

Thank you Heather for this good video! It was a educational experience for me! Thx again! 😊

Hi Heather! Ok, I’m just throwing my two cents in these comments and genuinely would like to hear other Catholics perspectives. I understand about acknowledging October 31st as “All Hallows Eve” (much like acknowledging Christmas Eve) however, why celebrate on this day? Even if it’s not evil/scary costumes or scary movies, etc. Why not just celebrate the Feast of All Saints Day on November 1st? I’ve always wondered why Catholics still participate in Halloween activities before or on October 31st. Especially, when the occult has admitted that this day is the highlight of their year.

I always enjoyed it growing up and turned out just fine. P.S. nice little wooden statue of Mary behind you

Love your kids' costumes.

I quit Halloween about 20 years ago. As long as people keep buying costumes and candy the holiday will keep on with all it’s negativity. What about having a wholesome Fall party on a different day?

We go trick or treating like everyone else, but the next day we use the Halloween candy to decorate sugar cookie portraits of saints. I try to celebrate all three days.

Excellent, Heather!!!

I am from Spain. A few decades ago, when my parents were young, here almost no one knew anything about Halloween, just what you could see in some movies from the United States like E.T., but as we are a traditionaly catholic country the people just celebrated the All Saints Day and the All Deceased Day. Over the time, Halloween has being taking the place for many people of these very important days for our faith and our culture, reemplacing all the sacred and beautifull things for the dark and demoniac. Every year the eve of All Saints Day more people comit more bad and dangerous things, even ataking other people, robering... But since Halloween seems to be a day that has arrived to stay, in many places we trie to use these day to prepare for the two importants days coming, especially with kids and teenagers. In the churchs and diocese we celebrate"Holywins" the day of All Saints Eve. These day we prepare activities for the kids and teenagers, they dres up like saints and we trie to remembre all day the real meaning of these days. Also the teenagers and youths usualy stay all nigt praying and watching over the Consacrated Host. The days of All Saints Day (a festivity, these day we dont have school or work) and All Deceased Day we have a lot of traditions we go to mass, we eat traditional sweets, we go to the cementery...

This was a great video on healthy way to celebrate Halloween! Blessings to Heather your so inspiring to watch!

Love this thank you !!💓💓

Thank you so much for this video!

Thank you for this beautiful video! You’re a true example of a Catholic family! God bless you.

Same thing I said, Halloween is my Christmas 🎃. I have Halloween themed stuff in my bedroom along with artwork of my favorite heavy metal bands, this Halloween I got up and did my morning prayers and I watched daily mass on EWTN on the Eve of Halloween October 30th. Also did my night prayers about how this year went and I passed candy to the trick or treaters. Next Halloween I am going to spend my morning watching daily mass and then do Halloween activities, scary movies and so on.

All hallows eve=all holy eve And has the word hallow in it, hallow is in the our father

As Catholic Hebrew Christians we changed our holiday to only Biblical characters or related saints plus always share our faith with others via Christian treats. We use our costumes to celebrate Purim too🙏😇 Thanks for the video.

What is the 3 days of darkness candle? Can you do a video on that? Love your channel btw! Thank you so much for what you do, this played a role in my conversion during last year’s RCIA!

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Love the carved pumpkins. I plan to have my deacon husband bless all the candy. Our church has the kids dress as saints too. God bless! We have friends come over to hand out candy. My husband makes soup and sandwiches for all of us afterwards. We have done it for years.

Halloween is a very Catholic Holiday. Enjoy it!

Why is Halloween a Catholic Holiday? What’s the history on it? Learning something new every time I watch your channel. Also can anyone bless items? I always thought it had to be a priest.

All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day, I'm thinking of doing a New Saint each year for All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Ash Wednesday, When I go on Hiatus in preparation for the upcoming Year, with a couple of vids for St. Patrick's Day and St. Joseph. Then I come back in full force on Easter, and every 3rd day there after with Tent Pole vids. If you watch the final 2 scores in Fantasia They are A Night on Bald Mountain representing Halloween, and Ave Maria Representing All Saints Day and hope. Well there was Halloween a few years back when a girl wanted to be a witch for Halloween, it's one of the most basic original costumes, And Then Wiccans were all "No you can't do that, it's making fun of our religion. When In fact the costume was originally used to blend in. I always feel cleansed after a humble confession to the Lord. Uh, Oh Your son and Daughter are the wrong color for Black Panther and Snow White😁, I'm Joking of course, Although Black Panther is a Black dude and the new Snow White is Latina, Snow White is German and can be white, And The Black Panther costume is like the Spider-Man Costume where it covers everything so Color doesn't matter. Okay I see St. Michael, The Arch-Angel, and St. Pope John-Paul II. I know that's not Fr. McGivney, Although we are praying for his Canonization he is Blessed Michael McGivney.

Good video keep doing nice work😊

Heather, I think you should do a video on positive body image for women, a girl I cared for very much stoped talking with me after a week of deeply warm texts after I wanted us to exchange our messenger contacts on Catholic Match, She is heavy after she put on weight as she reached 30 while bing very slender as a teen. I feel if she wasn't so self conscious she would have more relaxed and less worried, I am convinced she was afsrid I would think she was ugly, I don't and I think her heavier body is beautiful, just as beautiful as was when she was thin in her late teens. It hurts a lot I never got to tell her I don't ,mind at all, and how she should always think her body is beautiful.

What is a Jessie tree?

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Can you do a video on the three days of darkness??

Dress as a Saint ❤

If I can get free candy I’m going ..lol 😂Godspeed 🙏☘️🌹

Halloween is a Catholic holiday and Holy Day .

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Halloween has quite a complex history. Its not as black and white as I initially believed. I used to very anti halloween but the more I learn, the more I realise the Christian themes throughout. That beibg said, I still hate the idea of dressing my child up as a demon or something. I really like the approach of focusing on the Saints.

That’s not what my priest said. I will follow his explanation…..

I celebrate Halloween every year by watching The Exorcist, then lighting a candle for Pazuzu. Evil against evil.

Just started watching your vids. Great content I have turned my wife on to your channel. Btw has anyone said you look like you could be Ms. Rachel's cousin 😊

It is a big spiritual risk to engage in these holidays, and that's all I will say.

Catholic countries in Europe have never celebrated Halloween. It started some years ago, but is more like copying what we see in american films, than something religious. If we keep copying your holidays, next will be the 4th of July? lol 👻

I'm Jewish should I become a Christian?

I just want to put it on record that many of us Catholics DO NOT take part in any pagen demonic rituals and celebrate all saints day on the intended original day of May 13.

But haloween is not a celtic celebration? From Ireland to USA, people put tricks or tracks? VERY CONFUSED ORIGIN AND HISTORY. THEN... BE CAREFULL WITH THESE INFORMATION.

Thank you Heather for this good video! It was a educational experience for me! Thx again! 😊