Suggestions for All Hallows Eve

1. Trick or Treat
   1. Collect for Carefully Selected Local Charities: Collections can then be sent from the local charity to specified charities abroad that have a track record of good works. FOR EXAMPLE: Catholic Charities could collect the Halloween donations and then send them on to PIME or CNEWA.

   2. Do Not Collect: Some well known charities have an abysmal track record - see References below.
      
      1. Harvard Salient - Forced Abortions or Food?
         
      2. UNICEF Sterilizations
         
      3. UNFPA Continues to Support China's Crimes
         
      4. U.S.News & World Report: Devil's Brew at UN
         
      5. Imprimis: America and the UN
         

2. Costumes and Other Things
   1. Physical Safety of Children:
      
      1. Halloween Safety
         
      2. Halloween Safety Tips
      3. Some More Halloween Safety Tips

   2. Spiritual Safety of Children: Nix the demons and witches and emphasize the angels and saints:
      

3. Reafirm and Reawaken Feast Days of All Saints and All Souls:
   1. Several very well advertised church services scheduled for the day. If All Saints Day is celebrated on a Sunday this will not be a problem (most churches in US celebrate All Saints on a Sunday). An effort might be made to have several church services scheduled for All Souls Day, one regularly scheduled early service and one in the evening. The evening service should not only commemorate all of the dead, but those in the parish and especially the infants and children.
      

   2. Eucharistic Adoration, at least for a few hours, on All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day.

      "Visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament frequently, rejoicing to keep Him company." Blessed John XXIII

   3. Healing and counseling services should be scheduled, especially for All Souls Day, and could include separate meetings for miscarriage, abortion, and infant death .
      

4. Grass Roots
   1. Before approaching church personnel, meet with like-minded people to start a dialog, create a "brain trust", and put together a proposal.
      

   2. After putting together a proposal, meet with the most receptive of the church personnel. Several things people like to see are well thought out proposals, discipline, and the potential for follow through.
      

    "The Church, as the Mystical Body of Christ, had gradually, through the centuries, attained significant development through the institution of feasts destined to commemorate and glorify the mysteries of salvation."
Dorothy Scallan, The Whole World Will Love Me: The Life of Saint Therese

References: Harvard Salient - Forced Abortions or Food? UNICEF Sterilizations UNFPA Continues to Support China's Crimes U.S.News & World Report: Devil's Brew at UN Imprimis: America and the UN Halloween Safety Halloween Safety Tips Some More Halloween Safety Tips PIME CNEWA.