Where Was Jesus Between Resurrection and Ascension?
https://www.catholic.com/qa/where-was-jesus-between-resurrection-and-ascension
Tag: infierno
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SIN
STUDY OF OFFICIAL CATECHISM REFERENCE BOOK OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
I. Mercy and Sin
https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_three/section_one/chapter_one/article_8.html
1846 The Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of God’s mercy to sinners.113 The angel announced to Joseph: “You shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”114 The same is true of the Eucharist, the sacrament of redemption: “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”115
1847 “God created us without us: but he did not will to save us without us.”116 To receive his mercy, we must admit our faults. “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”117
1848 As St. Paul affirms, “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.”118 But to do its work grace must uncover sin so as to convert our hearts and bestow on us “righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ ourLord.”119 Like a physician who probes the wound before treating it, God, by his Word and by his Spirit, casts a living light on sin:
Conversion requires convincing of sin; it includes the interior judgment of conscience, and this, being a proof of the action of the Spirit of truth in man’s inmost being, becomes at the same time the start of a new grant of grace and love: “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Thus in this “convincing concerning sin” we discover a double gift: the gift of the truth of conscience and the gift of the certainty of redemption. the Spirit of truth is the Consoler.120
II. The Definition of Sin
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM
1849 Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as “an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law.”121
1850 Sin is an offense against God: “Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight.”122 Sin sets itself against God’s love for us and turns our hearts away from it. Like the first sin, it is disobedience, a revolt against God through the will to become “like gods,”123 knowing and determining good and evil. Sin is thus “love of oneself even to contempt of God.”124 In this proud self-exaltation, sin is diametrically opposed to the obedience of Jesus, which achieves our salvation.125
1851 It is precisely in the Passion, when the mercy of Christ is about to vanquish it, that sin most clearly manifests its violence and its many forms: unbelief, murderous hatred, shunning and mockery by the leaders and the people, Pilate’s cowardice and the cruelty of the soldiers, Judas’ betrayal – so bitter to Jesus, Peter’s denial and the disciples’ flight. However, at the very hour of darkness, the hour of the prince of this world,126 The sacrifice of Christ secretly becomes the source from which the forgiveness of our sins will pour forth inexhaustibly.
III. The Different Kinds of Sins
1852 There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit: “Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.”127
1853 Sins can be distinguished according to their objects, as can every human act; or according to the virtues they oppose, by excess or defect; or according to the commandments they violate. They can also be classed according to whether they concern God, neighbor, or oneself; they can be divided into spiritual and carnal sins, or again as sins in thought, word, deed, or omission. the root of sin is in the heart of man, in his free will, according to the teaching of the Lord: “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a man.”128 But in the heart also resides charity, the source of the good and pure works, which sin wounds.
IV. The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin
1854 Sins are rightly evaluated according to their gravity. the distinction between mortal and venial sin, already evident in Scripture,129 became part of the tradition of the Church. It is corroborated by human experience.
1855 Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God’s law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him. Venial sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it.
1856 Mortal sin, by attacking the vital principle within us – that is, charity – necessitates a new initiative of God’s mercy and a conversion of heart which is normally accomplished within the setting of the sacrament of reconciliation:
When the will sets itself upon something that is of its nature incompatible with the charity that orients man toward his ultimate end, then the sin is mortal by its very object . . . whether it contradicts the love of God, such as blasphemy or perjury, or the love of neighbor, such as homicide or adultery…. But when the sinner’s will is set upon something that of its nature involves a disorder, but is not opposed to the love of God and neighbor, such as thoughtless chatter or immoderate laughter and the like, such sins are venial.130
1857 For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: “Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent.”131
1858 Grave matter is specified by the Ten Commandments, corresponding to the answer of Jesus to the rich young man: “Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and your mother.”132 The gravity of sins is more or less great: murder is graver than theft. One must also take into account who is wronged: violence against parents is in itself graver than violence against a stranger.
1859 Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God’s law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart133 do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.
1860 Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man. the promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest.
1861 Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.
1862 One commits venial sin when, in a less serious matter, he does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when he disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, but without full knowledge or without complete consent.
1863 Venial sin weakens charity; it manifests a disordered affection for created goods; it impedes the soul’s progress in the exercise of the virtues and the practice of the moral good; it merits temporal punishment. Deliberate and unrepented venial sin disposes us little by little to commit mortal sin. However venial sin does not set us in direct opposition to the will and friendship of God; it does not break the covenant with God. With God’s grace it is humanly reparable. “Venial sin does not deprive the sinner of sanctifying grace, friendship with God, charity, and consequently eternal happiness.”134
While he is in the flesh, man cannot help but have at least some light sins. But do not despise these sins which we call “light”: if you take them for light when you weigh them, tremble when you count them. A number of light objects makes a great mass; a number of drops fills a river; a number of grains makes a heap. What then is our hope? Above all, confession.135
1864 “Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin.”136 There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit.137 Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.
Original Sin (Aquinas 101)
What is sin? Feeling Broken? How to Find True Happiness | Fr. Mike Schmitz | SEEK25
What’s the Difference Between Mortal and Venial Sins? (Aquinas 101)
Mortal vs Venial Sin | What’s the Difference?
Do We Really Inherit Original Sin from Adam and Eve? (Aquinas 101)
Bishop Barron on Original Sin
Why Confess Your Sins to a Priest? (Aquinas 101)
Cardinal Arinze clearly explains Mortal Sin
Mortal vs. Venial Sin
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS WHEN WE SIN – MINUTE 9’44
DIFFERENT PARTS OF SIN
LOS 3 PECADOS – EJERCICIOS ESPIRITUALES DE SAN IGNACIO DE LOYOLA
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/giuXxbQchqg
TEXTO: https://ejerciciosespirituales.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025_Andres-Torres_Tres-pecados.pdf
The Seven Deadly Sins and how to overcome them in your life
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-seven-deadly-sins
¿Cuál es el pecado contra el Espíritu Santo? MAT 12:32
https://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/63628/cat/13/cual-es-el-pecado-contra-el-espiritu-santo.html
CONFESS MORTAL SIN AS FAST AS YOU CAN
DIFFERENT PARTS OF SIN
Sins of the father?
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DEATH
STUDY OF OFFICIAL CATECHISM REFERENCE BOOK: CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2L.HTM
I. The Particular Judgment
1021 Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ.590 The New Testament speaks of judgment primarily in its aspect of the final encounter with Christ in his second coming, but also repeatedly affirms that each will be rewarded immediately after death in accordance with his works and faith. the parable of the poor man Lazarus and the words of Christ on the cross to the good thief, as well as other New Testament texts speak of a final destiny of the soul -a destiny which can be different for some and for others.591
1022 Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven-through a purification592 or immediately,593-or immediate and everlasting damnation.594
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.595
Consciousness after Death Established | Catholic Answers Podcasts
https://www.catholic.com/audio/ddp/consciousness-after-death-established
WHAT HAPPENS AT DEATH
A Good Death and Avoiding Purgatory
WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTBHeSo5IH8&list=WL&index=14
What Happens After We Die? – Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon
Levels of Heaven & Hell: What are They? – Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
Catholic priest explains: When the greatest battle occurs for the person’s soul
Death only on God’s time
What does John 11:9 mean?
https://www.bibleref.com/John/11/John-11-9.html
Do “the Dead Know Nothing?”
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/do-the-dead-know-nothing
MUST SEE: Four Last Things: Death ~ Fr. Ripperger
DEATH: Jesus appears to all dying people
ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: THERE ARE TWO JUDGMENTS: ONE AT DEATH, ONE AT FINAL DAY
THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY TO CLEAR UP PURGATORY TIME
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NECROMANCY / INVOKING THE DEAD AND DEAD PEOPLE APPEARING TO PEOPLE
LIMBO DOES NOT EXIST, ABRAHAM’S BOSOM DID AND WAS DONE AWAY WITH WITH CHRIST’S RESURRECTION
WHAT IS A GOOD DEATH LIKE
REAL WINNERS AND LOSERS IN LIFE
What happens at death
YOU CAME FROM DUST AND TO DUST YOU SHALL RETURN
WHAT HAPPEN TO UNBAPTIZED BABIES WHO DIE AND ABORTED BABIES?
SECOND DEATH WILL HAVE NO POWER OVER THEM – MILLENIUM
MINUTE 1H15′
PARTICULAR JUDGMENT AT DEATH: HEAVEN, HELL OR PURGATORY
AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH
Qué hay después de la muerte
HOW TO DIE WELL
Whatever happens God wills it or permits it
– Father Martin to man on death row
Will there be animals in the next life?
Minute 17:18
When To Call a Priest (Aquinas 101)
Cremation
The Last Things (Aquinas 101)
The Reality of Life After Death – Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon
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HELL
MUST SEE: LEVELS OF HELL
Levels of Heaven & Hell: What are They? – Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
STUDY OF OFFICIAL CATECHISM REFERENCE BOOK: CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2O.HTM
IV. Hell
1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: “He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.”610 Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.611 To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called “hell.”
1034 Jesus often speaks of “Gehenna” of “the unquenchable fire” reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost.612 Jesus solemnly proclaims that he “will send his angels, and they will gather . . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,”613 and that he will pronounce the condemnation: “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!”614
1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, “eternal fire.”615 The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.
1036 The affirmations of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are at the same time an urgent call to conversion: “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”616
Since we know neither the day nor the hour, we should follow the advice of the Lord and watch constantly so that, when the single course of our earthly life is completed, we may merit to enter with him into the marriage feast and be numbered among the blessed, and not, like the wicked and slothful servants, be ordered to depart into the eternal fire, into the outer darkness where “men will weep and gnash their teeth.”617
1037 God predestines no one to go to hell;618 for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want “any to perish, but all to come to repentance”:619
Father, accept this offering
from your whole family.
Grant us your peace in this life,
save us from final damnation,
and count us among those you have chosen.620
Levels of Heaven & Hell: What are They?
– Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
Father Steven Scheier’s Judgment Experience
Father Steven Scheier judgment experience SECOND interview with Mother Angelica
Hell: Man Shot & Saw Hell – Shocking Must-See Video
EL INFIERNO: LXIV. El Infierno de los condenados y Cristo
https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/sapientia.php/2409160843-lxiv-el-infierno-de-los-conde
MUST SEE: What Did Jesus Do in the Tomb and What “hell” ?
Did He Descend to? Explaining the Faith
Hell: God did not create hell
RETIRO OBRA DE LA IGLESIA: EL PLAN DE DIOS
https://laobradelaiglesia.org/retiros/#:~:text=
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
“HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN”
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1Q.HTM
https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_two/article_5.html
Paragraph 1. CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1R.HTM
631 Jesus “descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens.”475 The Apostles’ Creed confesses in the same article Christ’s descent into hell and his Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because in his Passover it was precisely out of the depths of death that he made life spring forth: Christ, that Morning Star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on all mankind, your Son who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.476
Paragraph 2. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1S.HTM
632 The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was “raised from the dead” presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection.477 This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ’s descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Saviour, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.478
633 Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, “hell” – Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek – because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.479 Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into “Abraham’s bosom”:480 “It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Saviour in Abraham’s bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell.”481 Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.482
634 “The gospel was preached even to the dead.”483 The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfilment. This is the last phase of Jesus’ messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real significance: the spread of Christ’s redemptive work to all men of all times and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption.
635 Christ went down into the depths of death so that “the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.”484 Jesus, “the Author of life”, by dying destroyed “him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage.”485 Henceforth the risen Christ holds “the keys of Death and Hades”, so that “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.”486
Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great silence because the King is asleep. the earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. . . He has gone to search for Adam, our first father, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow Adam in his bonds and Eve, captive with him – He who is both their God and the son of Eve. . . “I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. . . I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead.”487
IN BRIEF
636 By the expression “He descended into hell”, the Apostles’ Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil “who has the power of death” (Heb 2:14).
637 In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He opened heaven’s gates for the just who had gone before him.
WHY IS HELL ETERNAL?
This scary glimpse of Hell should make you think long and hard about joining Satan
The absolute loneliness and lack of God in hell
Upon the Four Principal Gates of Hell
– St. Alphonsus Liguori
Most people in hell believed Hell did not exist
VISIONS OF HELL BY JOSEPHA MENENDEZ
Catholic priest explains why hell is a grace (for the fallen angels)
HELL IS THE LONELIEST PLACE
THERE IS NO RELATIONSHIP IN HELL
Is Hell Empty? | Msgr. Stephen Rossetti
The Existence of Hell: Revealed by Our Good Lord
Knowing Up From Down Heaven & Hell
A Letter from Hell
Lo que dice la Iglesia con comentarios de San Josemaría
El cielo, la muerte, el purgatorio. ¿Qué son los Novísimos?
Hell: Faustina Kowalska: “I have seen hell, I will tell you what happens, I beg you, please listen to me!”
“If you lived an evil life, there is often a manifestation of evil (at the moment of your death).”
Catholic priest explains: Fun people seem to go to Hell & Preservation of youth among celebrities
Is Judas in Hell?
Demons obey Christ in exorcism sessions
ABSOLUTE MUST SEE VIDEO TESTIMONY OF PRIEST
When Jesus sentenced this priest to hell for eternity
St Gemma meditating on Hell and her sins
SANTA ESCRITURA DE LA BIBLIA SOBRE La ira del Señor
Lecturas
Primera Lectura
Eclo 5, 1-8.No tardes en convertirte al Señor.
Lectura del libro del Eclesiástico.
NO confíes en tus riquezas,
ni digas: «Con esto me basta».
No sigas tu instinto y tu fuerza,
secundando las pasiones de tu corazón.
Y no digas: «Quién puede dominarme?»,
o bien: «Quién logrará someterme por lo que he hecho?»,
porque el Señor ciertamente te castigará.
No digas: «He pecado, y ¿qué me ha pasado?»,
porque el Señor sabe esperar.
Del perdón no te sientas tan seguro,
mientras acumulas pecado tras pecado.
Y no digas: «Es grande su compasión,
me perdonará mis muchos pecados»,
porque él tiene compasión y cólera,
y su ira recae sobre los malvados.
No tardes en convertirte al Señor,
ni lo dejes de un día para otro,
porque de repente la ira del Señor se enciende,
y el día del castigo perecerás.
No confíes en riquezas injustas,
porque de nada te servirán el día de la desgracia.Palabra de Dios.
Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: Saving souls from Hell
HE DIED AND MET GOD, AND HE WASN’T READY.
The incredible near-death experience of Fr. Rick Wendell.
¿Cómo librarse del infierno??
-Libro de Tobías – Te Explico la Biblia Episodio – 6
No priest goes to hell or to heaven alone…
He always takes others with him – Don Bosco
Hell is torture and solitary confinement deprived of God
Catholic priest explains: Majority in Hell now are there because they didn’t believe there’s Hell.
The Spy Mission of Judas Iscariot
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-spy-mission-of-judas-iscariot
What’s the Deal with Limbo? Did Limbo get canceled? Or are Catholics still allowed to believe in it?
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/whats-the-deal-with-limbo
Limbo
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/limbo
Whatever Happened to Limbo?
https://www.catholic.com/qa/whatever-happened-to-limbo
PS 63. ENFERS DANS LES PROFONDEURS DE LA TERRE
Psaumes 63: 10,11: Mais eux cherchent à m’ôter la vie: ils iront dans les profondeurs de la terre. On les livrera au glaive, ils seront la proie des chacals.
SALMS 63:10,11: But those who seek my life will come to ruin;
they shall go down to the depths of the netherworld!
Those who would hand over my life to the sword shall
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ALL SAINTS DAY – ALL SOULS DAY – HALLOWEEN
All Saints Day
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/all-saints
All Souls Day (Dia de los Muertos):
https://www.catholic.com/qa/churchs-stance-on-dia-de-los-muertos
Celebration of Samhain
(what I did find dates the beginning of the festival to the ninth century, thus post-dating the arrival of Christianity to the British Isles)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain
What are the origins of All Saints Day and All Souls Day?
Are these linked with paganism and Halloween? – Catholic Straight Answers
All Saints
Catholic Answers Encyclopedia
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/all-saints
Whom We Honor on All Saints Day | Catholic Answers Q&A
https://www.catholic.com/qa/whom-we-honor-on-all-saints-day
All Souls
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/seasons-and-feast-days/all-souls-20378
All Souls’ Day | Catholic Answers Encyclopedia
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/all-souls-day
What’s the Point of Halloween? | Catholic Answers Magazine
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/whats-the-point-of-all-saints-day
What is the significance of All Saints Day?
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
All Saints’ Day – Saints & Angels – Catholic Online
https://www.catholic.org/saints/allsaints/
Halloween and the Triduum of Death
There used to be a liturgical trifecta for the dead at this time of year: All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints, and All Souls
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/halloween-and-the-triduum-of-death
Halloween perverted by the secular world, witchcraft, the occult. Should Catholics just ignore it?
SATANIC RITUALS DURING HALLOWEEN
Sacrifices during Halloween
“History of All Hallows’s Eve”
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/months/10_2.cfm
“The Solemnity of All Saints is celebrated on November 1. It is a solemnity, a holyday of obligation and the day that the Church honors all of God’s saints, even those who have not been canonized by the Church. It is a family day of celebration—we celebrate the memory of those family members (sharing with us in the Mystical Body, the doctrine of the Communion of Saints) now sharing eternal happiness in the presence of God. We rejoice that they have reached their eternal goal and ask their prayers on our behalf so that we, too, may join them in heaven and praise God through all eternity. The honoring of all Christian martyrs of the Faith was originally celebrated on May 13, the date established by the fourth century. Pope Boniface IV in 615 established it as the “Feast of All Martyrs” commemorating the dedication of the Pantheon, an ancient Roman temple, into a Christian church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the martyrs. By 741, the feast included not only martyrs, but all the saints in heaven as well, with the title changing to “Feast of All Saints” by 840. In 844, Pope Gregory IV transferred the feast to November 1st, timing it around the harvests to be able to provide food for the pilgrims. Some scholars believe this was to substitute a feast for the pagan celebrations during that time of year. Pope Sixtus IV in 1484 established November 1 as a holyday of obligation and gave it both a vigil (known today as “All Hallows’ Eve” or “Hallowe’en”) and an eight-day period or octave to celebrate the feast. This feast is marked with liturgical observances that have changed over the centuries. By 1955, the octave and vigil of All Saints were abrogated. Instead of a separate vigil on the calendar, the celebration begins the evening before, as mentioned in The General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar“”
HALLOWEEN
