Carpe Diem Acts of Devotion: Trail of Saints, Krakow, Poland

Church of Our Lady of the Snows

I stop at the graves

along the trail of the saints

take tea with each one

~Cie~

Carpe Diem Acts of Devotion: Pilgrimage of the Relics, Maastricht (The Netherlands)

Saint Servatius

my fascination

with relics may be gruesome

or is it divine?

~Cie~

Carpe Diem Acts of Devotion: Lourdes

Copyright Dennis Jarvis

would I be washed clean

of the stain of my mistakes

if I bathed in Lourdes?

~Cie~

Carpe Diem Acts of Devotion: Camina de Fatima

Image Source

little disciple

faith strong in a childlike heart

may it bring you joy

~Cie~

Notes:

I may be a misanthropic agnostic at this point in my life, but it wasn't always that way. As a child growing up in New Mexico, I was a devout Catholic. 

Two things pushed me away from the church: dogma and holier-than-thou blind-faith believers who dared neither question nor explore and condemned anyone who did.

Happy Birthday Father Roger

In truth, I don't know the Good Father Roger. This was a video I stumbled across while looking for something else. However, it got me thinking.

Father Roger seems a companionable sort, a bit of a colorful character who enjoys telling a story and likes seeing others happy. One might say that Father Roger seems to embody a truly Christian spirit. 

I would far rather listen to someone like Father Roger, and would be more likely to take his words to heart, than to listen to one of these hate-mongering sourpusses such as Bill Donohue. That's the fellow who said that marriage wan't about love, it was about having children, his point being that same sex couples shouldn't be allowed to marry because they can't have children. 

My question for Bill is if marriage isn't about love, why the hell do it? We live in modern times where one neither needs to be married or to have sex outside of the bonds of marriage in order to conceive a child. If I really wanted a child, I could go to the sperm bank and have a doctor perform a medical insemination. By having this procedure, I could skip the whole loveless marriage business while also avoiding sex outside of marriage. 

In any case, if Christianity is to survive, it needs a whole lot more Father Rogers and a whole lot fewer Bill Donohues.

I hope that Father Roger had an excellent birthday. He seems like a nice chap who deserves good things.

~Naila~

Devil of a Job: Interview With an Exorcist

Healing Spellwork Second Day

The candle meditations that can be found on You Tube are helpful. They come with peaceful music that helps one focus on this sort of spellwork.

I got some input from a good friend regarding the spells I mentioned yesterday. She said that since my subject has three conditions requiring healing, the spell using the three candles was a good one. With the purple candle I focus on the heart condition, with the blue on healing the lung cancer, and with the white on healing the brain from the dementia. Then utilize white light and the healing jar spell to send general positive energy and obtain the best outcome for him, whether that be a miraculous healing of body and mind or release from his body. I was very grateful for this advice.

I mentioned to my friend that it had been years since I dealt with people on a spiritual level because of trauma inflicted on me in the past by cruel and narrow-minded people. I told her that I would not have extended myself this way for anybody else. This person is very special to me. When he needed my help, I could not see fit to turn him down.

I am sensing a fair bit of psychic pain on his part, things that he's holding onto. I am hoping to help him with these things, with the assistance of higher spiritual beings. He's an advanced soul but has become mired in pain and trauma.

He held metaphysical beliefs, so I am working with the goddesses Brigid and Nanna to assist him. My friend who provided advice mentioned that when she was working with her ailing mother, her mother was Catholic, so she used images from the Christian pantheon. I feel it is well to work within the subject's belief system. If the subject is an atheist, I imagine that general positive energy is apropos.

I am learning as I go. It's been a while since I did spell work and I was a bit rusty. But I am determined to help this special spirit in one way or another. If there is one thing I can do to honor him, I feel it is this: never let others take away my power again.

In love and light,

Cie

The Lord's Supper

Here is a unique cartoon explaining why one must be baptized in order to receive the sacrament. 

I was raised Catholic, and I honestly don't think I ever heard this explained, although, to be fair, I'm in my late forties now, and catechism classes were a long time ago.

~Illsa~