In a community in Cebu City, children are not dressed as ghouls and monsters for the “Halloween” season.
A “Parade of Saints” was held in a mountain barangay in Cebu City and participated in by parishioners of the Mary Help of Christians Parish in Buhisan.
The participants were dressed in costumes that depicted saints of the Catholic Church.
There were those dressed as Carmelite saints: St. Therese of Lisiuex, St. Teresa de Avila and St. Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes.
Little boys were dressed as the Little Infant Jesus or more popularly known as the Sto. Nino, some came as the archangels Michael and Gabriel.
“As Catholics we have to promote the saints not the forces of evil like the secular understand of “Halloween”,” Fr. Mhar Balili, the parish priest, said.
He explained that the objectives of the activity are “to remind of the reality of heaven, our calling to holy and saints, and make the saints as our model.”
