Halloween Prayers

Happy Halloween.  I will hand out candy tonight, listen to spooky music, reflect on horror films etc.  I guess you could say that I love all things Halloween: kitschy costumes, spookiness, the weather, the food, candy, games, and tom-foolery.  As Lint Hatcher says, "I was born with the spooky gene!"

But I as I participate in all the revelry, I will not forget the call to memory.  I will remember the saints who have gone before me and will allow their witness to inspire me to better living.  I will also remember the dead and say prayers of thanksgiving for them and our past communion together.  I hope you will too.  On a day like this, remember these prayers, and allow them to lead you to deeper levels of "right-remembering":

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night, 
Good Lord, deliver us!
- Traditional Scottish Prayer





Eve of All Saints Prayer
Father,
All-Powerful and Ever-Living God,
Today we rejoice
in the holy men and women
of every time and place
May their prayers
bring us your forgiveness and love
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.-From the Liturgy of the Hours