Friday, 2 July 2010
June Moon Names
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
The Rev Chavah Aima
Friday, 25 June 2010
Spells To Remove Bad Karma And Sin
Hoodoo folk magic doesn't traditionally possess a concept of karma, but it does acknowledge sin, which is all in all a pretty similar notion. There is a traditional ingredient for removing sin (or karma) and that is the herb hyssop. Its use for this purpose is given in the Bible. It is most commonly used in the form of a bath. One can either boil dried or fresh hyssop herb into a strong infusion and add it to the bath to free one's self from sin and karma, or one can simply buy it as a prepared bath such as this one (link.)
If one has been a very bad person, a formula mixture like Cast Off Evil may be used to help encourage one to give up bad habits and behaviors. Here's a strong spell for removing all kinds of sin, bad deeds and wickedness from one's conscience:
* Hyssop bath
* New Life oil
* Cast Off Evil incense
* 13 white candles (any size, though I would advise chime or tea light)
Prepare the candles by dressing them with New Life oil, and arrange a safe place for them and the incense to be burnt. If possible, whatever room that you are in the most would be an ideal location.
Start the spell by taking a hyssop bath. Remain in the water at least 30 minutes, and be sure to wet your head. Do not use any other soaps or shampoos in the bath, and do not rinse off afterward.
Once out of the tub, light your incense and one of the candles. Leave it alone to burn all the way down, however long it takes.
Each day, for the next 12 days, burn more incense and light another candle in this same manner, for a total of 13 days. Save all ashes and wax remains. When the spell is finished, take these and dispose of them in running water (a river or ocean is ideal, though a kitchen sink garbage disposal or a flush toilet can be resorted to if no other option presents.)
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010
What Lessons Do Children Teach Us On Earth
Such as souls embodied and come to the Come to rest as little, they're absolutely unlimited love and do tremendous light sent directly from the Divine. We gather strength and love them and in return they tint and zip. This is not eternally the dossier. Such as give is abuse of young children and they may abandon the Come to rest as a stick to of this abuse, thus cyclical to heaven everywhere their souls subsequently once more be introduced to Divine unlimited love.
Sometimes the souls of children abandon even if give is unlimited love on Come to rest. God may choose folks absolutely souls on the other arrange to help out. A month ago, in the Shared States, we erudite a mess about in Newtown,Connecticut; a young man opened fire in a school grueling 26 group. Twenty of folks deaths were of six and seven-year-old boys and girls. This mess about stung so numerous hearts not scarcely at the same time as it was a unintelligent act of dark energy but also at the same time as it enthusiastic the lives of young undamaged children. As a mother, my indicate goes out to all parents of any person enthusiastic in this skill. But as a spiritual number, I'm deeply benevolent at the same time as this dark act took not worth it some of this light on Come to rest. Relations children were further little illuminated beacons raging joy, love, and cheeriness to all folks approximately them. Such as their lights were extinguished, folks approximately them were cast in dimness with the energy of bareness, ache, and make angry. A wave of dimness covers everybody touched by this aura.
But if we glance about folks unfaltering little souls and what they teach us, it is about individual and bringing the light on Come to rest not walking the Come to rest in dimness. Of course we're trouble by their victims but we choose to footfall indoors the light and heal. We choose to subsist life as they did-to subsist life to the fullest-finding zest in the simplest possessions. Grasp time to be inflicted with the beam of light or allow your eyes to suggestion that orange butterfly fluttering approximately the bury. Think about to the flora and fauna sings their musical songs.
Household teach us to love unconditionally. They love us regardless of our unreserved formal, burial, belief take shape, route, or religion. They love inadequate grounds and inform their love in mind, words, songs, dances, and any other creative way they can glance of. Such as we learn to be the light, subsist life to the fullest, and love unconditionally, we handhold hypothetical the lessons of children. Such as children abandon the Come to rest wall, they abandon eat a rites of bareness. But we requirement be obliged for the experiences and the lessons the children bring. They subsist in the atmosphere of light and love and are the close energy to the Divine on Come to rest.
Be fond of, Blond, and Therapeutic,
Anysia
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Holy Neomartyr Chryse As A Model For Our Lives
By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
One of the brightest pages in the golden book of Martyrs was written by the Neomartyrs, who were martyred during the dark period of Ottoman rule, which they illuminated and brightened with the confession of their faith and their blood.
In the pages of the "New Martyrology" authored by Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite we are presented with numerous Neomartyrs. Among them a prominent position is given to a young daughter from the area of central Macedonia, namely the village Chryse which is in the province of Almopia of the prefecture of Pella, whose name was Chryse. She was truly Golden (Chryse) in both her name and deeds. She was tested as "gold in a furnace" and found to be with faith that was twenty-four carat gold. Bathed in her martyric blood, she was cleansed and brightened to be accepted by the Giver of heavenly goods as a "whole burnt offering".
Her exterior life was simple, and she was also simple in her behavior and ways. She was a villager of little education, but wise according to God with a living faith, inner purity and amazing stability. Born to poor parents, they were honorable strugglers of life, and she was a hard worker together with her three sisters. Chryse was very beautiful on the outside, which at that time was an unfortunate thing for the enslaved Greeks, because beautiful girls were captured by the Agas for their harems, or they were pressured to change their faith to Islam to marry them. The latter happened to Saint Chryse. While gathering firewood on the mountain with her fellow villagers, a Turk was dazzled by her beauty. He captured her and then tried in every which way to convince her to change her faith and marry him. Seeing that it was unlikely he would achieve his purpose, he sent some trusted Turkish women to speak with her, since women know how to talk better to one another, in the hopes that they could change her mind. When he failed to change her mind in this manner, he was forced to threaten her parents and sisters to visit her and persuade her. With tears and lamentations they urged her to change her faith externally to save herself, while internally she could continue to remain a Christian. But the great soul of Chryse responded: "I have my Lord Jesus Christ as my father, the Lady Theotokos as my mother, and the Saints of our Church as my brothers and sisters", and then she sent them away. Before the stability of Chryse the Turks responded with horrible tortures. Finally on 13 October 1795, they cut her body into pieces with a knife and in this way the most worthy one received the crown of martyrdom from the Bridegroom Christ.
Perhaps her spiritual ripeness, wisdom, firm commitment to the faith of her Fathers and her refusal to marry someone of another faith, as well as her behavior towards her parents, which, as we shall see below, the great Hagiorite Saint Nikodemos comments on and praises, makes an impression. Let us analyze, then, these two things.
First, she refused to marry someone of another faith, when he asked of her to deny her faith and traditions with which she was nurtured and was raised. She was not enticed with riches and indulgence, nor daunted by intimidation, threats and inhuman torture. She was a young girl with a future and dreams in life. When forced to betray any honor she had, her holy faith, the living tradition, even her very life, she prefered martyrdom. It was impossible for her to live as if dead, which is why she died that she may live. This is because life is not a biological existence, but communion with the Creator and the Source of life, the Triune God. Whoever has come to know God within the limits of their personal life and tasted life-creating divine Grace, counts death as nothing. They consider death to be their separation from God. When the Grace of God encompasses the soul and body, then a person will not deny their faith for any reason and considers martyrdom as a God-sent gift. When, however, the soul has not tasted Grace, this "living water", then they are dominated by the passions and an evil spirit, which through the passions dominate the will of man. The greatest passions are those of sensuality, avarice and ambition, and on their altar are sacrificed, many times without even the slightest hesitation, every sacred and holy thing.
Second, the response she gave to her parents and siblings match the words of Christ, when He spoke of His mother and siblings, saying: "My friends and siblings are those who do the will of My heavenly Father." Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite, commenting on the action of the martyr to dismiss her parents and siblings, as well as her wise words, says: "Bravo to her brave great soul! Bravo to her true love for God! Bravo to her wise intellect, which is worthy of heavenly praise! In truth, brethren, what the divine David said was fulfilled in this Saint: 'Father and mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has received me' (Ps. 26:10), and that which the Lord said: "Think not that I came to bring peace on earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword: to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother, and ones enemies will be found in their own household" (Matt. 10:34).
The inner freedom, stability in faith, and selfless and valiant spirit of the Virgin-Martyr in the evil days such as we are living in, in which hypocrisy, selfishness, fickleness, and spiritual enslavement to the dictatorship of the passions reigns, is for all of us a bright beacon and shining example for imitation.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , October 1999. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
Witches Of East End Season Two Episode One A Moveable Beast
Ingrid enters the kitchen to find Freya and comforts her by saying that as long as their mother is screaming, it means she is fighting for her life. It seems that Ingrid has developed the habit of sleep walking and that is why she went outside. On the other side of the coin, Freya has barely slept since the wedding and is incredibly upset that Killian has not returned her phone calls, or come back to town. A now human Wendy enters and announces that someone came through the portal and that she has been tracking him. Unfortunately, because he moves so fast and is cloaking himself, Wendy has no idea who it is. I dont know about you but I really hope they follow through on this storyline. Knowing that the witches came from Asgard but little else is killing me. It seems that Freya was working on a memory potion because they have no idea what happened the night of the wedding. Wendy believes that it is important to get their memories back before they seal the portal.
Dash is frantically trying to use his powers to move a box but is having no success. Killian suddenly appears and snarks about needing medical attention because of a headache. Dash quickly declares Killian a hallucination to which Killian snarks that he is Dashs conscience. Killian accuses Dash of killing him, as Dash places pictures of him and Freya into a fireplace to burn. His rage causes the fire to ignite.
The women are gathered at the table discussing how many lives Wendy has left and Joannas prognosis. They drink the potion and get a rapid vision of the portal being opened but are still unable to tell who came through.
A man appears in the woods and he has the Asgard symbol on his shoulder. My guess is that this is the son Joanna she left behind in Asgard.
Later, in the hospital, a badly injured man is brought in screaming about a shadow who chased him into the wall, marked with the ancient symbol of the king. Of course, hes Dashs patient because that hospital couldnt possibly have more than one doctor. The Asgard symbol has been carved into the patients chest.
Freya finds a mystical box on her dressing table and when she opens it, she is transported to a fantasy like realm and reunited with Killian. Say awe everyone, that was meant to be romantic. When Freya pulls away, she finds blood on her hand and discovers a bloody unconscious Killian at her feet. This is enough to snap her out of the fantasy realm.
Ingrid is back at the library and meeting with Hudson. It seems that she has applied for a position to curate documents related to witchcraft in Southern New England from the 1650s to present day. To get an interview, Ingrid lied about being a PhD, so after a few moments of angst, she decides to tell the truth about lacking the appropriate credentials.
A weak Joanna wakes to find that Victor has let her sleep into the afternoon. She struggles out of bed determined to try and track the person who came through the portal but is forced to stop when Victor notices that her nose is bleeding. Joanna breaks down in tears and finally admits that she is not doing fine. Victor assures her that she has them but Joanna points out that she doesnt have him. Victor promises to stay with her for as long as she wants.
Freya frantically calls Wendy to report that Killian is dead. Wendy assures Freya that what she had was a premonition which means that Killian might still be alive. Wendy adds that the vision could be a metaphor or literal but promises to deal the deck tonight to get to the bottom of what is going on. Wendy hangs up saying that she has to grab a book which contains information which will ease Wendys pain. When Wendy grabs the book, a man grabs it as well. They bicker over the book and flirt shamelessly with each other. Finally, the man points to a second copy of the book and the two part ways.
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Monday, 21 June 2010
Giving Sightings
I invite you to take a look and offer a thought! What is your experience?
"Sightings" 7/27/09
Giving
-- Martin E. Marty
Giving USA Foundation last month reported on "giving, U.S.A." under a headline, "Giving in worst economic climate since Great Depression exceeds 300 billion for second year in a row," but "a 2 percent drop in current dollars over 2007," as well as "the first decline...since 1987" and the second since the Foundation started keeping score in 1956 has occurred. "Two-thirds of public charities receiving donations saw decreases in 2008. The exceptions were Religion" along with "Public-Society Benefit and International Affairs." Ms. Del Martin of the Foundation, speaking of the religiously motivated, said "It would have been easy to say 'not this year' when appeals came their way, and we definitely did see belt-tightening...[N]on profits have had to do more with less over the past year, but it could have been a lot worse."
However, human services charities "are among the first to reporting increasing needs for their services in 2008," and most expect things to get worse in 2009. The sector named "Religion," in the first year of the new hard times, reported that "giving to religion increased an estimated 5.5 percent (1.6 percent adjusted for inflation.)" Also, "religious gifts account for an estimated one-half of all individual giving, not counting gifts made through bequests (5.6 percent) or family foundations (about 3 percent.)"
No one on the giving front is relaxing, or being and sounding optimistic, but the record so far gives some reasons for hope and provides some impetus for digging in and digging deeper so that this vital sector can play its role, locally and nationally, especially on the "human services" front. It is always the first to get cut or chopped down by (especially) the most financially strapped state governments.
I've read many articles in which authors look to the Great Depression to find out about giving, coping, enduring, et cetera. I've also been asked about it, since a chunk of my "The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941, "volume two of "Modern American Religion", deals with what people wrote and did "last time around." I quoted an important "Research Memorandum on Religion in the Depression" by Chicago Theological Seminary Professor Samuel C. Kincheloe, as good a reference as any.
One difference between that depression and all previous American depressions, according to an editorial in "The Christian Century" from September 18, 1935, cited by Kincheloe, was that it was "the first time men have not blamed God for hard times." My reading "this time around" suggests that the judgment holds true and gets seconded. Yes, some judgmental evangelists who argue that God sends Hurricane Katrina and tsunamis say that God gets the credit for the current crisis, but almost everyone else finds plenty of blameworthy activity going around. Different ones of God's creatures get the blame, depending upon who is assessing the damages and pointing to the damagers.
Human flaws and follies, globalization trends, bad banking practices, and much more are shamed and blamed, and they bring hard times and judgment on themselves - or, better, "ourselves." There is plenty of room for work by theological ethicists and preachers, but while chest-pounding and finger-pointing go on, it would seem that the signals from Giving USA are important as reminders for what to do continually.
I, or "this writer," as we used to say, do/does not think that charitable giving and churchly acts of mercy will take the place of or do more than supplement what has to be done through government and secular agencies. But the durability, dedication, and partial steps religious groups and individuals manifest remain vital in the larger economy of nations.
"Reference":
http://www.givingusa.org/press releases/gusa/GivingReaches300billion.pdf
Martin E. Marty's biography, current projects, publications, and contact information can be found at www.illuminos.com.
In July's Religion and Culture Web Forum, "Flowers in the Dark: African American Consciousness, Laughter, and Resistance in Toni Morrison's Beloved," ethicist Jacqueline Bussie of Capital University pursues the question of why, in so many accounts, people in oppressive situations of suffering respond with laughter. Focusing on the example of Toni Morrison's slavery-era novel, Bussie, in an excerpt from her Trinity Prize-winning book The Laughter of the Oppressed, explores the complexities of the human condition and points toward a more nuanced understanding of ethics. Invited responses will be posted later in the month from Joseph Winters, Cooper Harriss, John Howell, and Zhange Ni. http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/webforum/
"Sightings" comes from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
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