Article on 1P5: "Let the Servants of Hell Take Note Tomorrow"

 This is a repost from October 30, 2021. This year, 20222, Christ the King fell on the 30th.

As Halloween converges with the Feast of Christ the King in the traditional Mass this year, a great and important reflection appears for our consideration.  

 

The article I wrote on the matter is posted here:

https://onepeterfive.com/let-the-servants-of-hell-take-note-tomorrow/

 

Here are some excerpts:

 

"However, we are not at a moment in the history of our culture or country at which we can afford to surrender a day to Satan, nor avoid suffering worse repercussions than we have already suffered from the modern onslaught of the occult."

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When neighborhoods embrace a perverted attention to death and the “spooky,” adorning their homes with dismembered bodies, images of torture, figures headed toward damnation, horror and blood-lust, or mockery of the sacred, the servants of Hell are done a great favor. None of these images serve to orient the soul that beholds them toward Heaven and a greater desire for holiness. Instead, all of these images serve to frighten and instill fear, to harm the mind of the impressionable and to illicit anxiety and sadness.

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The demons present themselves as the solution to the problems which burden men, if the latter will simply bind themselves to them by worship or sacrifice. Demons offer and are able to grant men power and earthly fortune and success. This comes at the cost of their souls, of course, for they demand that the person commits a mortal sin in order to receive their assistance, and the act of invoking a demon is itself a mortal sin. At a time when the youth and the rest of the culture which have become spiritually unmoored from the One True God, we can understand why this offer of assistance from the diabolical is so intriguing to them.

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The occult does not seek to bring joy at Halloween but terror. Christ, however, brings light and victory to the oppressed and fearful. When we celebrate Halloween, decorate our homes, make costumes for our children, watch movies, listen to music, and inaugurate the festivities of the night, do we establish a beacon of divine Light or a citadel of occultic evil?

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Halloween, then, is the cosmic battle between the Church and Satan in miniature.

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Thus, let Halloween be the day of Christ the King, the day of judgment upon evil and of celebration of grace; a day to recommit ourselves to the work of holiness; to renew our Baptismal vows, to bless our homes, to renew the Enthronement and consecration our homes to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, to celebrate light in the darkness with blessed bonfires, to adorn our homes and lands with the abundance of sacramentals offered to us – to prepare both as warriors adorned with “the armor of God” and servants and sons seeking to be pleasing and welcoming to the King.

Read the rest here!

https://onepeterfive.com/let-the-servants-of-hell-take-note-tomorrow/