Halloween

It is better not to demonise nor canonise Halloween. It is to be taken in the context of the anglosaxon-celtic cultural background. Like Onam in Kerala, it's a harvest festival. It's perhaps because of it, the role of the tomato, and pumpkin ... It is also a new year celebration, the beginning of a new time. As the (re)beginning of time, the dead are believed to return homes. Afraid of evil spirits the living would disguise their face to escape from them.
Gradually all these became fun and game.
Many of them who celebrate don't even think about a God to dishonour or a devil to be celebrated. Some people like to see devils everywhere and they do find them. People who are religious and God's people engaging in war, hatred, greed, power-games ... are all for God's glory. There, in fact, beliefs are worshipped than God, and evils can be easily justified.

You shall not be like that

Christ suffered, but it was not because he suffered that he became the Messiah. He is the Life-bearer/ grace-bearer for humanity and, of course, for the entire creation even before the incarnation. He poured out his life that we may have life. His suffering and self-emptying were life-giving. 

Christ poured out his life as a ransom for many when Kings and priests gathered power and wealth. There is a king in the palace, there is a high priest in the temple. Our high priest is one among us being a source of life for us all. 

Here, the question comes to the disciples: Can you drink the cup I have to drink? It is not simply about a readiness to suffer. It is about an attitude of becoming a ransom that offers life. One works, suffers, serves, and thus flowers, but we need to see what fruits are produced from these flowers. Are they life-giving fruits? 

Life is non-sided, and the authority of life spans beyond boundaries. Disciples looked for power and position even in relation with Christ, because they understood him within the frames of powerful and wealthy priests and kings, not according to the nature of life.

Gospel into liberation and chains

The kingdom of God has no boundaries of languages, cultures, and religions. If the gospel we have heard and interpreted has not liberated us to understand that God loves everyone, we have not listened to the Gospel. The rightness, trueness, and power of the gospel are in the freedom and peace that all humanity can experience. Taking religion into public spheres under the disguise of devotion, worship, and witness rarely does any act of faith. Instead, they are attempts of religious supremacy, an expression devoid of freedom.

Victory Rosary and the Glory

God's glory is where 'the righteousness and peace' is realised. This righteousness cannot be restricted to any religious rule or the super-spread of any religion. 'Peace on earth' is what is pleasing to God rather than victories of religions.

Praying the Holy Rosary is for entering the heart of God and moulding one's life after the Gospel. Selfish, egoistic victory language describing the 'powers' of the Rosary is not a Rosary that reflects the Gospel.