Do you remember the lady who passed out holy cards instead of candy or Halloween? You know, the one two streets over who, instead of forking over fun size Snickers nuggets, gave you a laminated St. Francis of Assisi and a copper penny for added weight? Or maybe you don’t remember her, but I know you remember the kid who stood one house away warning all of the rest who journeyed toward her lonely front porch?
C’mon, I know I can’t be the only one who remembers that empty porch.
Irregardless, it just occurred to me (twenty years later) that as much as I hated myself for forgetting every year that her’s was the house without candy, I wonder what the heck all of the protestant kids did when they got this mysterious card with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe instead of Shock Tarts. For me, I could at least understand the context but I can’t image what happened when my protestant friends went up to her door and said “trick or treat.”
I’m really interested. If you are or were protestant when you went trick or treating as a kid, how did you react to the holy card lady? If you are Catholic, do you remember the holy card lady?
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Hi Teej. Yes, I remember the holy card lady. I didn’t understand it then and this Protestant still doesn’t understand it. A Bible verse would’ve been much more effective. Say, John 15:7..
Gee… perhaps you could look it up?
Daniel 1:17
Wow, I feel like I missed out on an important part of childhood. We never had a Holy Card Lady. Just the Full-Size-Snickers House and the Off-Brand Soda Guy. Maybe it is time to become the Holy Card Man in my neighborhood. Halloween is all about keeping the traditions going, right?
Right on Tim! I’ll be trick or treating in your neighborhood for sure.
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NO holy card lady in any of ou neighborhoods in any of the years we moved, but my kids somtimes brought back chick tracts on the horrors of hell and how all Catholics were all destined to go there. when we lived in Harrisburg, that was the only place that we ever got chick tracts with candy on ‘em.
THAT wasn’t fun to try to explain to an aspie 9 year old.There was always some kind of candy taped to the tract, though. She ate that and tore up the tract leaving bits all over the carpet in her disdain of it. She was always disdainful of anyone that dismisssed our FAith. obviously it was doing us good as a family, so why did they hate us so much that they were trying to destroy our love of our church and our worship of God? She got very angry about those tracts since she said they were all lies and even she, a little kid could figure that out.I’m just glad she never tried to flush them or I’d have had to call a plumber.