When pop culture transforms a “holy day” into a “holiday,” it almost always manages to focus on the wrong side of the equation.

For example:

*The number of shopping days left til Christmas is NOT as important as the 12 day period between the Christmas day miracle and the season of Epiphany.

*A huge party, Mardi Gras, on “Fat Tuesday” is NOT as important as the forty days of Lent that follow.

*Eating all your chocolate bunnies before breakfast on Easter morning is NOT as important as rejoicing over living a resurrection faith on Easter afternoon.

*Tonight, while the world is preparing to throw itself a spooky, kooky All Hallow’s Eve party, “Halloween” is NOT as important as is the celebrations it fronts for — All Saints Day and All Soul’s Day.

Outwitting spooky spirits on Halloween is…