“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.” Proverbs 26:27

In this month leading up to All Saints Day, we in our culture search our souls for the “ghosts” of the sins that haunt us and will not let us alone. We spend the month of October delving into the darker side of our psyches, fascinated by the human mind and its penchant for sin. We play at masking ourselves with false faces. And yet into this time of play seeps a time of awareness of our human faults, guilt, shame, terror, and repentance.

We reveal of our darkest thoughts, our greatest doubts, our most ardent of fears in the celebration of All Hallows Eve, so that we can purge those “ghosts” on November 1st as we commune with the Holy Ghost on All Saints Day.

And there is nothing m…