Irecently had a conversation with a man whose wife of 65 years had just passed away. As he was in life, he was with her at the end.

He told me that, moments after her last breath, the atmosphere in the room suddenly changed. The air in the room seemed to take on a tangible presence. While he said words failed to express this change in atmosphere adequately, his attempt at description used the phrase, “a comforting warmth surrounded me.”

Such an experience lies at the very foundation of “All Hallows’ Eve.” While we call it today, “Halloween,” and observe its arrival on the 31st day of October, it is far more than a calendared occasion.

While we observe Halloween with many fearsome costumes, lawns decorated with tombstones, emerging skeletons, and all manner of ghosts and goblins seeking

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