Oddwalk Ministries

Category: holiday

Happy Thanksiversary!

Four years ago, Erin and Orin got married!  There’s no better way to celebrate Thanksgiving I think.  This picture is from the end of the wedding ceremony where we lit our baptismal candles from the Advent wreath Orin’s sister created (we got married on Saturday night, the first Sunday of Advent that year) – so happy Advent…

Gol Dern Kids! Dagnabbit!

Shannon today snapped this pic of what happens when one lets Halloween linger just a little too long.  He sent it to Orin with the following caption: “Get off my lawn!“ Perhaps that’s a reference to this pic that’s been meandering around the internet lately?

All Souls’ Day

The Shrine (where Orin is music and liturgy director) celebrates All Souls’ Day: A display of 20,000 roses in the church – each placed there by a member of the Missionary Association of Mary Immaculate to remember a deceased loved one Following the last mass of the morning, a procession to the Resurrection Garden where…

All Hallows’ Eve

The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows’ Even (both “even” and “eve” are abbreviations of “evening,” but “Halloween” gets its “n” from “even”) as it is the eve of “All Hallows’ Day,” which is now also known as All Saints’ Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions,…