00:00We can consider that the celebration of Halloween has two origins that, over the course of history, became mixed together.
00:08I would like to talk first about a pagan origin.
00:12On the one hand, we find that the pagan origin of the celebration could be attributed to the Celtic celebration called Shamain,
00:22whose purpose was to worship the dead.
00:25The Roman invasion of the British Isles in 46 BC resulted in the blending of Celtic and Roman cultures.
00:37that over time it will end and disappear.
00:42However, their religion, called Druidism, was affected when evangelization arrived,
00:49It actually disappeared in most Celtic communities by the end of the 2nd century.
00:56However, we must not forget that all these elements, which often seem to be disappearing,
01:04Well, the truth is that they are becoming integrated into new cultures in a different way.
01:10And this is obviously no exception in Christianity.
01:14Although we can certainly say that by the end of the 2nd century the druid communities no longer existed as communities,
01:26Many of these elements remained scattered within the culture that was being evangelized.
01:32And certain core elements remained, certain elements that are what will contribute today to completely distorting the feast of all saints.
01:44We don't know much about the religion of the Druids because everything was passed down from generation to generation.
01:51We know that the Shaman's festivities were most likely celebrated between November 5th and 7th,
02:00roughly halfway between the summer equinox and the winter solstice.
02:05With a series of festivities that lasted approximately one week,
02:10They ended with the festival of the dead, and with it the Celtic new year began.
02:17This festival of the dead was one of the main festivals because they celebrated what for us would be heaven and earth.
02:26We know that these concepts of heaven and earth only came with Christianity,
02:31However, this was the festival that these druids celebrated.
02:36For them, the place of the dead was a place of perfect happiness where there was no hunger or pain.
02:43If we take stock of what the church has said, these seeds of the word are scattered throughout all cultures.
02:52The culture of the Druids was no exception.
02:55They too celebrated heaven, just as we did.
02:58There were similar elements because if we read the apocalypse, we will read in the final part,
03:07like heaven itself, because it is this place where there is no more hunger or pain, where everything is wonderful.
03:15The Celts celebrated this festival with rites in which the Druid priests,
03:20who served as mediums, communicating with their ancestors hoping to be guided in this life towards immortality.
03:30It is said that the spirits of the dead came on this date to visit their former homes.
03:37So, we can certainly see here how there are similar elements, the concept of heaven,
03:44But the way of communicating with them already has to do with a mediumistic situation.
03:50In other words, there is already a situation where we find in Sacred Scripture
03:54that there should not be this communication through these mediums.
04:00Deuteronomy is very clear about these kinds of things that are forbidden to the faith.
04:07They are forbidden to the people of God, who, since Judaism, presented them as something not pleasing to the Lord.
04:15This culture, because it lacks evangelization, because it has not had this revelation that we have,
04:21Well, they practiced this form of mediumship and with it they communicated with the dead.
04:27We know that for us Christians, all of this is forbidden.
04:31Because all this does is put us in communication, not with the dead, but with the devil.
04:39We know there is no communication between us and the dead,
04:43but whoever at a given moment, in a mediumistic session,
04:47He speaks or communicates with the one who is working as a medium, because it is not someone else, but Satan.
04:55That's why this is really very dangerous, and it's something that remains of this dispersing culture.
05:04And in small groups there remained some of these mediums who, although already as a group as we were saying,
05:10We no longer have the group of Celts that practices as a community,
05:15because the Druidic religion no longer exists as such,
05:19Yes, these mediums who continue to celebrate these kinds of events were scattered.
05:26on these dates we mentioned, between November 5th and 7th.
