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A Celtic Poem that could have meaning for today!
Selections from the Triads of Ireland
http://www.wildideas.net/cathbad/pagan/dr-text.html
Three nurses of theft: a wood, a cloak, night.
Three things that hide ugliness: good manners in the ill-favoured, skill in a serf, wisdom in the misshapen.
Three keys that unlock thoughts: drunkenness, trustfulness, love.
Three signs of a bad man: bitterness, hatred, cowardice.
Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.
Three sparks that kindle love: a face, demeanour, speech.
Three ruins of a tribe: a lying chief, a false judge, a lustful priest.
Three things that constitute a physician: a complete cure, leaving no blemish behind, a painless examination.
Three rude ones of the world: a youngster mocking an old man, a robust person mocking an invalid, a wise man mocking a fool.
Three youthful sisters: desire, beauty, generosity.
Three aged sisters: groaning, chastity, ugliness.
Three things that ruin wisdom: ignorance, inaccurate knowledge, forgetfullness.
Three things that are best for a chief: justice, peace, an army.
Three things that are worst for a chief: sloth, trechery, evil councel.

My Ordination as a Diakonissa
Oct. 9, 2005
This evening at 7:00 pm, I celebrated my Ordination as a Diakonissa in the Church of the Way. It was a beautiful ceremony, full of personal significance. I am deeply grateful and humbled by this honor.

Oct. 6, 2005
Please go to the "What's New" page and read the article from the Yahoo Group: EsotericChristians. It's a real eye opener!
It's titled, "CATHOLIC CHURCH NO LONGER SWEARS BY TRUTH OF THE BIBLE".

Oct. 3, 2005
Also our prayers and condolences to the families and survivors of the tour boat accident on lake George.

Sept. 25, 2005
Happy Birthday Collene (my oldest daughter who just turned 40! today!)


Child abuse and pedophilia in the Catholic Church
Sept. 25, 2005
All the sadness and horror of child abuse and pedophilia is coming home to the Catholic Church. Perhaps if the Goddess was returned to the world and the Church (in the form of women priests) and if the unnatural state of celibacy was eliminated from it's doctrine, some of these horrors could have been prevented. If the church was to return to it's own very early beliefs that Jesus WAS married. . . .. . ? Well, when you read the article below, it sure makes a person think.

Philly Cardinal Acknowledges Pain of Abuse
September 25, 2005 9:51 PM EDT
PHILADELPHIA - Cardinal Justin Rigali acknowledged the "pain and suffering" of those who had been abused by priests, but also lashed out at a grand jury report that he said unjustly criticized his predecessors and other members of the diocese.
The two-page letter from Rigali was tucked inside every parish bulletin in every church in the Philadelphia archdiocese on Sunday.
Rigali was not the only one distributing letters related to the grand jury report, which documented 63 cases of child sexual abuse perpetrated by priests in the archdiocese.
Members of the Philadelphia chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and Other Clergy, known as SNAP, also distributed a letter to worshippers at several Philadelphia churches. That letter urged anyone who was sexually abused by a member of the clergy to call the district attorney's office or SNAP.
The Rev. Nicholas Martino urged parishioners of the Immaculate Conception Church to take the letter home and read it, then pray for the victims, the families of victims and the offending priests, some of whom he told parishioners he knew.
"It's easy to become self-righteous," Martino said. "What goes on in the heart of a person only God knows."
Since 1971, Immaculate Conception Church has been the residence at one time or another of five of the 63 priests identified as child molesters in the grand jury report released Wednesday.
For some, it was one of their last official residences before they died or were defrocked.

The Crystal Cloister
Sept. 22, 2005

I found a wonderful site for beautiful, handcrafted prayer beads.
Check out:




Happy Birthday Rosie

Sept. 20. 2005
Today is my best friend Rosie's Birthday. She, well let's say she and AARP will be getting better aquainted! She a wonderful witch of a friend and I mean that quite literally.
So Have A Happy Rosie!!!

New Poem
Sept. 18, 2005
Check out the new poem just added to the Poetry Page. It's titled, " In The Smallest Things".

Krishna and Sophia
Sept. 17, 2005
An interesting idea regarding Krishna and Sophia:

Krishna, the Christ-like god of India says in the Gita (India's Bible written around 1500BC), "In every age I come back." He/She comes back whenever things get too rough here on earth.
Perhaps it's time for another of their visits? The Millenium Prophecy Of Sophia says...And I come for a second time, in the manner of a woman, and I shall speak with them, And I shall instruct them about the coming end of the realm. And I shall instruct them about the beginning of the coming realm, Which does not experience change, And in which our appearance shall change.
(Prophecy of Sophia translated from the Trimorphic Protennoia, a Gnostic Text)

A new book by Steve Berry
Sept. 15, 2005

I just finished reading a new book by Steve Berry called "The Third Secret". Wow, it was a page turned. The author is very careful to point out that this is a work of fiction. It tells the tale of a Vatican coverup regarding the Third Secret of Fatima. The book suggests that as early as 1917, when the Virgin Mary appeared to Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco in Fatima, Portugal, that the powers that be in the Vatican undertook to "edit" the Third Secret. The idea that there was more to the Third Secret than was revealed to the world in the reign of Pope John Paul II, is tantilizingly threaded through lies, deceit and even suicide. I won't give away the ending, but it does make a person think. In this day and age when so many other "secrets" that the Vatican had hoped were buried and forgotten, have abruptly come to light. . . . . well, maybe, and why not something like this story suggests??!!
It's a book and story worthy of a good read.

Qabalah
Sept. 13, 2005

I'm about 1/3 of the way through the course I'm taking in Qabalah. It's very interesting. I always thought Qabalah was sort of like Hinduism or Buddhism, but it's not. I think perhaps elements of Qabalah might be present in the Eastern religions and vise-versa. I see reflections of many modern day belief systems that have evolved from Qabalah. It is a very new area of study for me. I also beleive one could study Qabalah from now until the end of time, and only scratch the surface.

Autumn
Sept. 12, 2005

Well another week is over. The long days of summer are coming to a close. On Sept.22, my favorite season, Autumn, begins. It's at this time of year I love to smell apples and cinnamon, pumpkins and spices and the cool crisp air.
It's a quiet time, to reflect, to think and prepare for the coming winter. I hope you'll enjoy the season's harvest with a thought to those who have lost everything in the Gulf Coast states. Money isn't everything. Even to say a prayer or keeping the displaced in your thoughts is helping in a small way.

9-11
Sept. 11, 2005

On the anniversary of 9-11, I wish all peace and joy to the survivors, the families who lost so much, the NYPD and NYFD. I also offer a special prayer for our troops everywhere.
May peace and harmony be restored throughout the world, so another generation will never know the pain and suffering of war and terrorism.