Costumes, Candy and Christ By Mark Hornbacher Sacred Heart's Halloween Outreach program this year was another huge success. Resident seminarians and priests were among the volunteers who welcomed a record number--over 1700--of the neighbors who came to our front door trick-or-treating. The always creative director of undergraduate seminarians, Fr Mark Hamilton, came dressed as a gondolier (a Venician raft steersman). More recognizable were the seminarians Thomas Little and Joseph Wienclaw, who came as Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. But while candy, costumes and balloons were the order of the evening, it was prayer that began and ended it, thanks to Sr. Mary Finn and Fr. Paul Berg, who led all the volunteers in asking God for his grace and blessing. The Halloween Outreach program is an over thirty-year tradition at Sacred Heart and a symbol of our desire to be real neighbors with the people in our neighborhood. Sister Mary says that this desire requires us to conform ourselves to Christ, to "participate in the posture of Jesus, which is one of an open heart." Each Halloween, we manifest his posture through the action and symbol of an open door. Although all look forward to next Halloween, we in the Sacred Heart community find in the event a reminder of the fact that the Sacred Heart of Christ is an open heart. And that we are called, each day of the year, to imitate it.