Choose Your Mask - Sunday October 25, 2015

Imagine what it was like for the first people who realized they could react differently to death on All Hallows’ Eve.  Instead of hiding in fear, they could look Death in the face, or more exactly, wearing masks, they could look through the face of Death.  What might it have been like walking those empty streets, feeling immune to the threat of the real returned dead who would have assumed you were one of them?  Did it give the living an understanding that if the dead returned at all, they returned not for vengeance but because of the deep ties of love?  Did the thinness of the veil become comforting instead of threatening?  Is this why we still celebrate Halloween?  Read the whole sermon here: