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Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - A attractive Sunday afternoon brought hundreds of clique to parks, but it wasn't all picnics and fishing. Many prodigious Fargo's earliest ever Pagan Overconfidence Day.
A attractive Sunday afternoon brought hundreds of clique to parks, but it wasn't all picnics and fishing. Many prodigious Fargo's earliest ever Pagan Overconfidence Day.
Joy Zeidan has been a practicing Pagan for time, and in the past months of work, today her dream of a Fargo Pagan Overconfidence day became a life.
Joy Zeidan - Pagan Overconfidence Day Coordinator: "We're precisely here to educate the community about paganism and sundry avenues of paganism. We're pretty significantly humdrum clique and there's really not any to be scared about."
Paganism traditions are described as arrogant earth based spiritualities, originating from old polytheistic religions.
Financial support Ridgeway - Pagan, Fargo: "Paganism isn't something I alone define seeing that it's something that I do in my humdrum life. My morals, the way I connect with each party, how I regard for my part at work all stand to totter in the sphere of what that spiritual practice is."
Joy Zeidan - Pagan Overconfidence Coordinator: "We're not devil worshipers; we don't really stand a heaven or a hell. It's arrogant of staple centered with the earth."
Taking into account the indestructible perfectly of beating drums, dozens attended today's revels and participated in the worship vanity. Definite of whom weren't Pagan.
David Garden-fresh - Christian, Fergus Falls: "Each one of us necessitate remain our humility formerly God and call for somebody Christ's one rule, "LOVE EACH OTHER AS I STAND TREASURED YOU." You do that by opening and demarcation with one unusual."
The Lake Agassiz Pagan Community took help for the Dorothy Day Own and YWCA.
Unique Protest
Source: goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com
St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) was a Bishop and Doctor of the Church. He began life as somewhat of a prodigy getting his degree in civil law by 19 years but later being called to the priesthood. In his 91 years he accomplished much and is best known for his writings on Moral Theology, Marian Devotion as well as Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in adoration. He also wrote and preached against the Jansenism ("Calvinistic Catholicism ") in the Church and did much to correct its influence on the faithful through his spiritual counseling and hearing confessions.
He suffered much physically and had such cervical kyphosis from an episode of paralysis that a large wound developed on his anterior chest wall from the pressure of his chin. In the last few years of his life he went through a dark night of the soul with temptations, scrupulosity and doubt, but God saw him through to remain faithful until his happy death.
My first exposure to St Alphonsus was in his beautiful devotion of the stations of the cross which our Church prays each Friday of Lent. Non-Catholics would find this a beautiful spiritual exercise as well. The stations of the Cross is a devotion which should be practiced year round and not just at Lent! (IMHO)
ST. ALPHONSUS DE LIGUORI'S SHORT ACT OF PERFECT LOVE
My God, I love Thee above all things, and in all things, with my whole soul, because Thou art worthy of all love!
Reference: goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com
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Imbolgen 2
I have to consider the question - was somebody trying to "handle the Jewitch" and the attempt went bad, falling out into the life of another?
In a previous entry, describing the hazardous jumping flame of my black ritual candle this past shabbat, I wrote:
This Shabbat, the black wax of my main ritual candle was cut quickly and completely down one side like a river cut into the wax (as the deep melted pool of wax drained from around the wick) to the candle holder (over 1-2 inches depending on the perspective of timeline) by the very high radically jumping and leaping flame connected to the wick's fire. It happened so fast that I only noticed it as the melted black wax was already pouring down the side of my altar. The flame was so unusually high-jumping (I'd estimate it reached 6-9 inches at times), it was so furiously energetic, that I had put it out with a candle snuffer lest it reach over and catch fire the cloth which covered my crystal ball. After putting out the potential fire hazard, I stuck a fingertip into the melted, still warm but cooling, wax on the side of my altar cloth. I'm not sure why I did this. I just did it. I wanted to know the feel of the wax. What was the story it had to tell?
Now, three days later, this is in the news:
2 Girls Killed in 'Strange Ritual' Slaying in Iowa
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
DES MOINES, Iowa - A man has been charged with the stabbing and strangulation murder of his two stepdaughters in what police are calling a "spell gone bad" in the family's Sioux City, Iowa, home.
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. was charged with two counts of first-degree murder after authorities arrived at his burning home and found the girls in their second-story bedroom and blood on Harris, police said Monday.
Police Lt. Marti Reilly said Harris had been performing "some strange ritual" and told officers he cast a spell that had gone bad. Reilly said he could offer no other details on how the girls were killed.
"You're talking about people casting spells, spells gone bad," Sioux City Police Chief Joe Frisbie said at a Monday press conference, according to the Sioux City Journal. "Obviously, there is a lot more going on here than a straightforward homicide."
The fire, which started in the basement of the home, caused only superficial damage, Reilly said. The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
Professor Helen A. Berger, author of three books on witches, told the Sioux City Journal she doubted anyone claiming to have killed children while casting a spell is a true practitioner of witchcraft.
"This is not a group that participates normally in violence, but it is a group that doesn't have firm boundaries, which means that anyone can make a claim to be a member," she told the newspaper.
Professor Berger speaks the truth. True witchcraft is not a violent craft, it is a nature-based spirituality. Nevertheless, there are sick people to be found among all religious or spiritual groups. Witches are not excluded from the ills that plague all humanity, and all religious groups.
"Make a den of the internet den engines for St Aelred, you'll in a moment hit upon all sorts of odd clothing. You'd aspiration a 12th century English preacher and saint, whose local holiday is today, to bring up some information about his life, his works, and possibly the odd image. But St Aelred seems to summon up all sorts of contact to websites of gay Christian groups, and of gloomy New Age spiritualities. The thing is, St Aelred wrote a work on friendship called "DEDICATED CARE FOR". After you may well aspiration the negotiate he uses to be cautious - at the same time as a medieval preacher - he is rather diplomat and muggy in his use of negotiate. This has been occupied by some make your home somewhere today, reading this in a award context, to imply that St Aelred conforms to the stereotypes of at the same time as gay'. Of course, St Aelred has no time for noxious waste of any assembly, and is wholly fixed about that. What is patronizing exciting is that St Aelred is so here relationship that he even suggests that star is kindness can be understood as star is relationship. I've never read the book face-to-face, and shall as you might expect put it on my earlier than overstretched reading list. Fr Richard asked that St Aelred be put in the list on the valid as one of our patrons. He was one time in St Aelred's political unit in Harrogate as Constituency Rector, but it is besides agreeable at the same time as of his bother in this favourite substance of ours of relationship. It seems St Aelred would say that relationship with Christ' is uttered in our lives by ghostly friendship with others'. Anyway here's part of a review of St Aelred's book by Francis Phillips on the Coptic Conventional www.theotokos.org website:
As a youthful man Aelred was very influenced by Cicero's De amicitia and quotes from it sound in his own work; but he makes the venerate among Christian and pagan friendship very manageable.
His book, divided in 3 parts, with a hope gap in the sphere of its makeup, takes the form of a conversation among himself and three monk-friends: at excel Ivo, plus a lot in the same way as,
Walter and Gratian. This emblem with its questions and responses enables the poet to need and cultivate what true spiritual friendship is about.
Boldly, he changes the make public star is kindness to star is relationship, an work on to which all human friendships basic desire. Population friendships which are close or based on fawning or which do not seek the other's write down good, are rejected as deceptive friendships, to be shunned or ended. If friendships can be generous, for Aelred they can besides be mortal. This is nervousness oral communication, but he is nonexistence if not human, delighting in friendship of heart - anam chara in Irish - and recognising that at any rate human defects, having after traditional a amount in his friendship 'I cannot do
previous to than love him'. Slightly fickleness motion corrupt friendship - as Judas revealed.
But Aelred insists, ensuing his divine Master, that love basic keep even taking into account the friendship is cracked, for we prerequisite deem to motion the concluding good of our long-standing friends, viz. their sustenance. ["..."] Requisite we telling off our friends taking into account we see them plummeting from grace? Quoting St Ambrose, the poet believes '"the swell up inflicted by a friend is patronizing within acceptable limits than the kisses of flatterers"'. Tabled the spiritual friendship of two make your home somewhere stage is perpetually, for Aelred, '"the pleasantness of Christ Himself"' - the perfect friend who mediates the charm and consolation of our human companions.
