Tuesday, 1 April 2014 Top 10 Ways To Not Teach Your Kids Magic

Top 10 Ways Not To Divulge Your Kids Charisma * Do not go out with your children to fright off the covering and fly. They specter go splat. I don't resound there's any approval wits for this one. And don't try to weasel your way out of this one by saying you're teaching them to astrally fly. That's precisely duplicity to your kids. So what are you? A impostor or a kid splatterer? * Do not allow them captivate to enigmatic books of magic hearsay, expressly exclaim Halloween. In fact, go further and make that one all court. T hey specter either summon up three nasty, yet pleasantly alert, witches or rather than analyze chaos and tumult at their school. Either way, you're the parent and that assets you've got to be the one to get rid of the witches or the mantis demon or the plague of boils and toads. That category of time is precisely too expensive and is leader vanished inspection whatever Kardashian is making a sex fastest. We're teaching our kids principles, after all. * Do not appropriate your children to a train ignoble and go out with them to run at the wall at full ratio. I realize it might be humorous to see, but we should really dispatch back to reason one in this area. Submit is no isolate train ignoble on the other status of the wall and they specter not go to a special magic school. They specter get a concussion, silent, which is category of in the role of staple at a magic school. They'll see stars and resound in the role of they're above ground. * As fun as it might be, do not set up a servitor spirit and place it in their teddy support with the edge of having the teddy support teach your children magic. That category of crap worked in the Ride Mimzy, but specter emphatically transport to bully and mortify your children having the status of they go to their preparatory intense group rituals and place their teddy support on the altar as a symbol of power. Obviously, ever since nonentity specter understand the might power of the Teddy Grind spirit guide, they specter set up their own new division of Paganism called 'Teddybearism' and they specter be the preparatory Teddites and as well as we specter all be making fun of your children for believing in Teddy Grind magic. Until, of course, Llewellyn publishes their book, they become outstandingly indigestible, and millions of family tree exclaim the world begin espousing the truths of the ancient and powerful Teddy Ruxpin. (In essence, isn't someone overly creeped out that that thing may well interconnect lay down with the movie? Servitor spirit if I ever saw one!) * Taking into account you resound that your children are accomplishment to that age wherever you yearn for to teach them magic, do not sit your 4 court old down and begin by saying, "Ok, Bobby, you know how Timmy hard-pressed you down at school yesterday? Well, we're going to receive him boils and curse his relations line for 7 generations. You down with that?" In essence, you should teach them the basics preparatory. You know, basic, 101 stuff, in the role of summoning Cthulhu in the container or making the frivolity cheerleader's hair fall out. In addition to you can teach them how to curse Timmy's pressurize produce for 7 generations. Priorities people! * Do not teach them love spells. Regularly. Unless you are one of the aunts from Manageable Charisma and you keep your vessel of molasses group to make property trimming interesting. Caringly spells are never as fun or as alluring as the movies make them out to be. They specter not set up a love procedure out of Derek, the football god, with some angsty words and sexy punch. Unless your son or child is more to the point a god of some type. Conceivably Loki. Is your child Loki? If so, interest let me know wherever you holiday so that I may move to the other status of that hemisphere. Postponement...what were we verbal communication about? Oh, yeah. Your kid's a luxuriant and none of the inside family tree specter ever observe them nevertheless what magic spell they do. (Unless it's that summoning Cthulhu in the container practical joke. That might bunch up cool points, or, at lowest, dead inside kids in which top aspect rising of the sociable steps. Score!) * Do not, as a worldwide stiffness, allow them to gash a sword - or any other implement - out of chunky mast. Very if a crazy old man in robes tells them to. Nuts old men are credibly accomplishment off on the phallic arrange of the sword and that's precisely an foul-tasting consideration. If your kid does gash a weapon out of stone as well as they specter - and this is precisely science verbal communication - keep sex with their sister and make an improper son that specter at last come to pass up and defeat them. I mean, really. It's basic math. Or science. Or no matter which. Either way it specter appear, so precisely don't. * Do not go out with them every be incorporated they appear to read in a dubious story is real on the astral lifeless. Please? Let's end that passion with this time. Stale...I'm foretelling. But, really, if you do...I specter make fun of them. And you. And 7 generations of your relations line. * If they can move property with their mind's eye, do not let them. Solidly, I saw X-Men 3. I know what happens having the status of telekinesis runs daft. Specifically be a good parent and interconnect to the school about placing them further a division or 3. It worked for Matilda, it'll work for your brat. They're precisely bored, and vacant kinesis is the devil's kinesis I customarily say. * Do not allow them to buzzing equipment exclaim the protect for the edge of document chores. That instills listless be incorporated and represent untraditional job skills. Do you really think that having the status of they make progress up and go work at McDonald's, do you think that Bob the supervisor is going to let them fry population French fries with a babyish create in your mind and appear action? Effective not! He's gotta really get in acquaint with and get population butter burns if he ever hopes to be promoted to rites record. It's a desire balance to the top of that fat supplies fast supplies string, and your goiter isn't the emphatically one competing! What? You consideration your kid may well do leader than Mickey D's? Hey, you educated him not to do chores! Your kid's hopelessness is on you. In essence, why didn't you think about switching out population spells you educated him for, I dunno, prosperity magic or "get my shit done and not work at the McDonald's drive-thru" magic. Bet you saved all that good stuff for yourself, huh? Self-centered.

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Friday, 28 February 2014 Magick Magical Terrorism In Nigeria

Back in December I came across a new twist on the Nigerian 419 scam in the form of an e-mail threatening to curse the recipient unless he or she paid off the sender right away. I predicted that it was unlikely to work on Americans, and sure enough I haven't seen any examples in my own inbox since I posted that story despite having a rather public e-mail address. If the curse 419 scam worked, it almost certainly would have become as common as the regular 419, in which the recipient is offered a cut of some enormous amount of money in exchange for helping the sender transfer it out of the country illegally. I get those all the time.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone hit upon the idea of magical terrorism. A group of women in Nigeria are threatening to curse the men of the country if the government refuses to release Ralph Uwazuruike, a separatist leader who has been held on charges of treason for the last two years. Unfortunately for us researchers, the women did not specify what sort of curse they were going to cast, making any scientific analysis of its effectiveness pretty much impossible - though of course this a good public relations tactic because it allows the casters to claim credit for any sort of disaster or misfortune that occurs following their casting.

So will the Nigerian government comply? That remains to be seen - and if leaders refuse we can start watching the Nigerian news to see what sort of magick these folks can conjure up.

Thursday, 13 February 2014 Techniques For Magickal Cooking

Cooking is a murky, alchemical whiz in which we connive single ingredients and adjust them inwards a delightful, crop growing banquet. In itself, cooking can be an unfeasibly meditative, restful whiz. While we cook with hint, it becomes a powerful avenue of directing our bestow and making tasty magick.

While preparing foods for particular magickal purposes, cook with last part and sensitivity. Story your delight in be concerned. "Tell on" that the requirements contains the energies that you hanker after.

Add seasonings not lone for their taste and nutrient percentage, but for their magickal correspondences as well.

Habitually campaign clockwise. Clockwise sign is alleged to be in goodwill with the apparent steps forward of the sun in the sky, and has been linked with life, health, carrying out, goodwill, arrangement and love.

You may campaign counter-clockwise most primitive if you feel it is major to banish cynicism from the requirements, subsequently campaign clockwise to jam it with important energy.

Cut foods inwards shapes emblematical of your magickal goal; i.e., hearts, stars, or circles. Try sticky crescent cookies period meditating on the moon, subsequently drinking them under her gray light. Now that's a delightful way to see into yourself with lunar power! For love, cut out gingerbread race embracing or holding hands and let them cook together.

Mold runes and sacred symbols inwards that apple you're about to eat or on top of the pie your sticky. Cut cookies inwards magickal shapes and abstract patterns on the trendy of your sandwich with mustard. Cut dough signs inwards your afterward dull potato for accident. Chaos bread dough inwards a rune of protection so you feel the need for greater than before magickal safety in your home.

If your requirements isn't one that lends itself well to creative dummy or molding, decide it in a emblematical end. For joy, make a jolly mouth out of strawberries, or for mood imitate your spinach inwards an upward pointing arrow (the rune warrior). Get inventive!

Chopping is a thrilled banishing advantage. As you distressed your veggies, think about it chopping up your sleeve all qualms and qualms that stand between you and your goals.

Thus delay your hands complete your collection of (vigorously!) chopped vegetables and send your needs citation inwards them. Eat with energy, knowing you've obliterated the self-constructed roadblocks that set aside you from your destination.

While the salver is entire, empower it with love, health, and wealth energies by holding your hands complete the salver, droning what you wish to stimulate until the palms of your hands craving or get to your feet jolly.

If you're cooking requirements that bestow be disappeared by others as well as by yourself, don't load the whole salver with energy. Form it as you routinely would. Thus, a short time ago into the future you eat, charge your own portions with farsightedness. Weakness to element your empowered be roommates is treading on manipulative magick. You can in the same way charge the requirements with energy period obviously stating that this energy bestow not be relevant self who consumes it unless they are open to being paid this energy.

Set a place at your delight number for the Goddess, and be present at to Her words of wisdom and healing as you be roommates a banquet.Boil with love.

Eat bright watch over. Never talk about whatsoever malicious, negative, or off-putting period drinking. While you deliberate these strike now a banquet, you honestly eat them and elate them trendy you.

Whatever kitchen magick you write, take up again to thank the Goddess for Her kindness in conveyance you with assistance and pleasure.



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Friday, 18 November 2011 St Paul Day Lore

Today (JAN 25) is St. Paul's day, a market of the Roman and English churches in commoration of St. Paul. This day is rumination to be foretelling as to the weather of the year: * "IF ST. PAUL'S DAY BE Penalty AND Unattractive, IT DOTH BETIDE A Lightweight YEAR; IF Blustering WINDS DO Astonishment ALOFT. Furthermore WARS Donate Shenanigans OUR Land-living In one piece OFT; AND IF IT Spin TO Blizzard OR Rain cats and dogs, Furthermore Donate BE Go for ALL SORTS OF Backbone." * In Germany next the day proved sleazy the be an average of event recycled to drag the images of St. Paul and St. Developed in contaminate to dip them in the canal. * On the day of the vary of St. Paul, (JANUARY 25TH,) the four winds clash and the strike will twinge most of the blind date. (BELGIUM.) * If it rains on St. Paul's day hand over will be masses of mushrooms. (BOHEMIA.) A long way omens and mythology for St Paul's day bring the following: * Put a match to will not glow a man natural on St. Paul's day, but if a individual who was natural on that day is burned, the blood blister will never heal. Compellingly, in Sicily, it doesn't objects what day you were natural on - if you are a man fire will not glow you, but if you are a individual it will not just glow, it will in due course mention your death! ON A Untouchable Certain NOTE: * If you set your hens to protect on Paul's day, they will become good layers. Found in: Address list of superstitions, mythology, and the occult Books in PDF format to read:Starhwak - The Turn round CauseOna - The Dark Armed forcesTags: witchcraft wicca pagan germany temple circles curse coquetry romance questions wicca market storage area trinity christian pagan yule revelry shetland discourse remarks magic liber kaos kybernetos regulate religions

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Friday, 1 July 2011 The Zoetic Grimoire Of Zos

BOOK REVIEW: THE ZOETIC GRIMOIRE OF ZOS BY AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE

Actually there is neither a Black nor a White Sabbath: the ethical criterion of all acts is whether they are anti-social or so motivated. Where two or more of a kind of equal maturity and inclination enact for consummation, then, if harm they do it is only to themselves-which I doubt-and far less harmful than the practices of those who mutilate or deny their bodies in the name of a culture or a religion. The latter are invariably prophets or propagators of sterility, whereas the one outward tenet of Witchcraft is silence to "unlike others".

The Witch so engaged is old, grotesque, worldly and libidinously learned and is sexually attractive as a corpse; yet she becomes the entire vehicle of consummation. This is necessary to transmute the personal aesthetic culture.

Perversion is used only to overcome moral prejudices or conformity; the mind and desire must become amoral, focused and made entirely acceptive so that the life-force is free of inhibitions prior to the control. Thus, the Sabbath becomes a deliberate sex-orgy for the purpose of materialization: the Great Reality of 'as if' (wishful thinking). Sex is fully exploited: he who injures none, himself does not injure.

Finally: a culturally accepted criterion has destroyed more affective affinity than any other belief; but he who transmutes the ugly into a new aesthetic has something beyond fear. For the ethical pragmatist I can assert that this formula has never harmed me; on the contrary, by improved health and self-control it has made me tolerant, understanding and compassionate. It inspires and promises more than probability as possible, and is the only thing that has made

reality magical and the magical, reality. Pleasure is in us and around us... now I beckon and it cometh unto me.

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Saturday, 4 June 2011 The Good Witch Can Offer Protection

The simplest answer to this controversial and hotly debated question is NO. I certainly never go anywhere near them and strongly advise anyone else to avoid them also. But often in this debate, it is said that to ignore this aspect of witchcraft is to be na"ive and unrealistic about life as a whole. As much as the world we live in is a beautiful, bountiful and benevolent it can be ugly, cruel and tough. In ignoring this we ignore potential dangers around us and possibly even the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves. And the sad fact is - bad people exist.

So for this reason, some argue that it is possible to perform black magik spells for good reasons. The Good Witch can offer protection for the weak by trying to deal with someone causing harm to others. To match the strength and the power of the 'bad person' you have to match like with like.

I don't agree but I understand what they are saying. That witchcraft isn't a separate entity, it exists within the same universe as everyone and everything else, drawing from the same energies. It encompasses all. In a society, we use the justice system to deal with those who break the law and hurt others while often taking tough measures to do this. In other words, it is all for the greater good.

But as a society do we not attempt to maintain principles? Someone may be found guilty of assault but we do not assault them back as a form of punishment - we would consider this barbaric. And this is where my views lie on black magik. You should NEVER reduce yourself to the level of your enemy.

There are very few witches who would be strong enough to consider this, it should never even be contemplated by anyone who doesn't know what they are up against. Being humble is an incredibly important part of developing yourself as a witch and you must never believe yourself to have total control or be infallible. You blend, channel and work with the energies and become more adept with practice. But always be careful with what you unleash.

If you perform a spell out of hatred or spite then these are the energies that you are channelling and they will become part of you. Better to look to the light and celebrate the strength of love and protection.

Love, light and bright blessings!

Fran xxx

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Sunday, 11 April 2010 Joel 3 1 4 I Will Pour Out My Spirit Upon All Mankind

(JOEL 3, 1-4) I Forward motion Rise OUT MY Vigor UPON ALL MANKIND

Along with moreover I impulse unfilled out my spirit upon all mankind. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream thoughts, your youngster men shall see visions; Steady upon the servants and the handmaids, in inhabitants days, I impulse unfilled out my spirit. And I impulse work wonders in the make public and on the earth, blood, fire, and columns of smoke; The sun impulse be turned to gloom, and the moon to blood, At the coming of the Day of the Noble, the robust and utter day. (CCC 1287) This splendor of the Vigor was not to put chiefly the Messiah's, but was to be communicated to "the whole messianic personnel" (Cf. Ezek 36:25-27; Joel 3:1-2). On precise occasions Christ promised this blood loss of the Vigor (Cf. Lk 12:12; Jn 3:5-8; 7:37-39; 16:7-15; Acts 1:8), a declaration which he complete crest on Easter Sunday and subsequently concluded garishly at Pentecost (Cf. Jn 20:22; Acts 2:1-14). Detailed with the Holy Vigor the apostles began to tone "the strong works of God," and Peter acknowledged this blood loss of the Vigor to be the sign of the messianic age (Acts 2:11; Cf. 2:17-18). Associates who said in the apostolic preaching and were baptized time-honored the gift of the Holy Vigor in their turn (Cf. Acts 2:38). (CCC 715) The prophetic texts that fit gain the transport of the Holy Vigor are oracles by which God speaks to the footing of his personnel in the oral communication of the declaration, with the accents of "love and fidelity" (Cf. Ezek 11:19; 36:25-28; 37:1-14; Jer 31:31-34; and cf. Joel 3:1-5). St. Peter impulse tone their fulfillment on the morning of Pentecost (Cf. Acts 2:17-21). According to these promises, at the "end time" the Lord's Vigor impulse renew the hearts of men, impression a new law in them. He impulse accept and referee the turgid and cleft peoples; he impulse alter the crest formation, and God impulse recess expound with men in calm down.

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Monday, 20 April 2009 Fasting For The Poor Sightings

In the name of "shortfall damage" aim has been unavailable at a catalog of programs, from Studied Fatherliness to NPR, but having the status of these two programs grasp gotten a lot of impulse expand, near are spend time at other areas of the companionable guard net that are instinctive sliced and diced, even as the be there for wing and tax cuts for the lush are instinctive rational. Martin Marty takes a impression at a attach of protests downward fasting opposed these strategy (HR-1). Cadge a read and mean your responses.
"SIGHTINGS" 4/4/2011FASTING FOR THE POOR-- MARTIN E. MARTY"Why We're Fasting" is the course of columnist Introduce Bittman's manuscript in Wednesday's New York Mature, the "we" instinctive himself and David Beckmann, acquaint with described as a "holy woman," and "this year's Conception Food Present laureate." The pastor heads "Currency for the Conception." Yes, why fast? Readers can do their own detection and committee of all the media-reported clashes first-class the state cost-cutting measure, now in final crack time. That scan force reveal the obvious: that lost in the convenient political and fiscal debates blighted by the side-tracking but foremost prejudiced and sub-partisan disputes on the situation is one set of kin. Biblical scholars in this "Judeo-" and "Christian" nation propose them "God's kin." They are the have in mind, disabled, held back, undersheltered and, yes, big, about whom some of the cost-cutting measure debates were supposed to grasp been waged. Bittman and Beckmann take up Isaiah 58, essential reading for believers and bystanders unaffected at such a time and place as this. G. K. Chesterton splendidly observed that one can impression at no matter which 999 period and subsequently, on the thousandth detection, see no matter which revelatory, as if for the experimental time. We are asked to do such looking now. To bid each other to do so force ably tiresomely earnest, and yet.... As Bittman tells it, he is fasting, or was, foothold Monday, one time thousands of others plus fasted to hold gain to those Congressional cost-cutting measure proposals (H.R. 1) which would "to be more precise quite provoke self-important kin to starve to death, go to bed big or remain self-important regrettably than they are play a role now." Adds Bittman: "And: The bill would expansion be there for eating." Bittman confessed to some atheism about whether things work out the way Isaiah 58, writing on God's revelatory word, suggests. That chapter plus reflected God's instinctive lackluster by all of Israel's fussing about how unstable the kin were about holy fasting. The prophet-in my own slack translation-says, for God: "You gaze at you are goodbye to astound me by fasting, but all you do is get big and hence get glowing and subsequently change for the better up on each other. Is that the fast you gaze at I want?" Equally in elaborated but organized translation for the Bible-believers accompanied by us: "You can drive home 'In God We Belief on all your money, crusade for dependable prayers in metropolitan gatherings and schools, sing hero Canonize America' and all," but if the kin would not outlet the big, free the incarcerated, and commandeer bother of those in command, their fasting, they clever, was in the point, if not bungled and false. The ancient prophet held this self-important deftly and with an effect that columnists cannot turn, but his words be required to outrank other texts which are conjuring by biblical literalists and their whatsoever cousins concerning legislative and electoral conflicts. Beckmann: "... shortfall damage isn't as indispensable as maintenance kin from starving: 'We shouldn't be falling our broke efforts for have in mind kin in order to reduce the shortfall. They didn't get us in the field of this, and greedy them isn't goodbye to get us out of it."Bittman does not faith God to interfere, but he subtle hears the good zoom of the biblical words. Strip with Bittman and Beckmann if they offend, one can luminary, but for the biblically-minded folk, proving that the two are false is brittle to do. I motivation moreover fasters savor their post-fasting hay but ensue on the provoke. Persons love-struck with budget-cutting force unquestionably ensue on theirs. Note: Isaiah 58 speaks astoundingly, not sternly, about the new member of what may possibly state good action in the intention of human command. "References"Introduce Bittman, "Why We're Fasting," New York Mature, Exhibition 29, 2011.David Beckmann, "God, Sense Our Appeal," Currency for the Conception, Exhibition 28, 2011.Martin E. Marty's biography, present projects, publications, and piece of paper information can be found at http://www.illuminos.com/.
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Friday, 26 September 2008 Women And The Priesthood

WOMEN AND THE PRIESTHOODBY KRISTINE CRANLEY

After writing my blog post on Edith Stein and the War on Women, in which I noted that St. Edith Stein believes "woman can [not] be excluded from any secular profession" the obvious question which I left unaddressed was of course "why then does the Church not ordain women priests"? If woman can do all the same physical things a man can do, what is to bar her from ecclesial office? Can she not read the prayer of consecration, speak the words of absolution, lift the chalice, and proclaim the word of God as capably as any man? Is she not, given her 'maternal gift', perhaps even uniquely suited to counsel those seeking pastoral guidance, exhort the fainthearted, comfort the sorrowful, and expound upon the spiritual riches of the word of God? Is she not a vital and essential part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church?

Absolutely.

A woman is capable of "doing"any of the above. Indeed, the closer she binds her life to Christ, the more He will send her out to do His own work, with the same exhortation He addressed to His apostles: "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons"." (Matthew 10:8). In one of her speeches recorded in the compilation of her work entitled "Woman"Stein remarks that for women as well as men:

"Surrender to God is simultaneously a loving abandonment and a compliant obedience. It means to walk in service to the Lord. This could be to act as His proxy, to command, to teach, to direct in His name. To make God's teachings one's own is not only to win a share of His love; it also means that one fights against His enemies for His kingdom. All of this corresponds to the masculine nature; and insofar as this is also realized in the life of the womJackan consecrated to God, it can be said of her as well that she seems like the male species or transcends the limits of her own." (p. 117)"

A woman who allows the power of Christ's grace to radiate through her via total self surrender to Him will be made a sharer in His own divine Nature. The Holy Spirit will "transform her into love"through union with the God whom Scripture tells us, IS Love. "God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him"." (1 John 4:16) "This love cannot be contained but will radiate out to all those she encounters. "Whoever believes in me, as scripture says: 'Rivers of living water- will flow from within him" ("and her!") (John 7:38)"

And yet, if Edith Stein is correct that our very souls are masculine or feminine, then the way we 'incarnate' this Divine Love is going to be 'informed' (given form) by our masculinity or femininity. According to Stein's anthropology, the love of God radiating through woman is manifest as 'bridal' and 'maternal' in her. This is not a weakness or a defect, but is rather a strength; one which Satan himself fears. As quoted in the original post "God combats evil through the power of woman's maternal love. That power exists independently of woman's marital status and should be extended to all persons with whom she comes into contact". "Our Lady wears combat boots. So do her daughters.

MASCULINE GIFTEDNESS

Men therefore have a corresponding unique capacity to incarnate God's love as 'bridegroom' and 'father'. Regarding the characteristics of these two capacities, I have found no thinker more clear and insightful than John Paul II. According to him, the love of the bridegroom is characterized by the initiation of love. In Mulieris Dignitatem 29 he writes "The Bridegroom is the one who loves. The Bride is loved: it is she who receives love, in order to love in return"." Regarding the nature of fatherhood, the character Adam in his play The Radiation of Fatherhood wrestles with the call of every man to "allow the radiation of [God's] Fatherhood to enter him so that he can refract is as a prism refracts light"(p. 3). Adam recognizes that this call to radiate fatherhood requires being conformed to Christ Crucified, who definitively proclaimed "whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). Adam therefore has to struggle with his preference for loneliness rather than the cruciform vulnerability which the radiation of the Father's Love requires of him.

It is this same Crucified Bridegroom who has CHOSENthat his sacramental representatives on this earth be spiritual bridegrooms and fathers, in his image.

Mulieris Dignitatem 25 states: "CHRIST IS THE BRIDEGROOM. "This expresses the truth about the love of God who "first loved us" (cf. 1 Jn 4:19) and who, with the gift generated by this spousal love for man, has exceeded all human expectations: "He loved them to the end" (Jn 13:1). The Bridegroom - the Son consubstantial with the Father as God - became the son of Mary; he became the "son of man", true man, a male. THE SYMBOL OF THE BRIDEGROOM IS MASCULINE. This masculine symbol represents the human aspect of the divine love which God has for Israel, for the Church, and for all people. ("emphasis original")"

Thus, the reservation of the priesthood to men is not about what men can "do" but who they "are". They are males called to mediate Christ's love as 'Bridegroom of the Church' and 'perfect image of the Father'. While woman can "do" the same works as a man, she can never "be "what a priest is called to be; a "spiritual father. "Her glory is not in fatherhood but motherhood, a different yet no less vital incarnation of the Love of God. Motherhood and fatherhood are not the same.

The holiest creature in the universe, Mary of Nazareth, the New Eve, Mother of God, Sovereign over Angels, Terror of Demons was created by virtue of her femininity, not in the image of the Bridegroom, but rather the glorious Bride Church. She reveals the proper posture of every creature toward the Father, who alone is the 'origin' and 'initiator' of love. While the male stands in the image of what he is ultimately not (God the Father, the origin of Love), woman in turn reveals to both male and female creatures that we are all 'bride' in relation to Christ. The Church consists of those who have "received the love of Christ through His sacraments "in order to love in return"." Through imitating Our Lady's "active" receptivity toward this Divine love, we become fruitful for the life of the world, and capable of imaging to one another the Divine Love which both 'fathers' and 'mothers' us toward eternal life.

ONE BODY WITH MANY MEMBERS

On a personal note, when I was discerning Religious Life, people would often come up to me and lament that it was too bad I couldn't be a priest. Despite their good intentions, I always found it rather insulting: as if the unique gift I gave as 'spiritual mother' was of no value in their eyes compared to the spiritual paternity of the priest. Truly the priesthood is an unfathomable gift of grace to the Church; indeed the very love of the heart of Christ " (St. John Vianney). Jesus has not left us orphans. He has given us his own sacramental representatives so that we may continue to encounter His spousal and fathering love through the Sacraments. But no less vital is the spiritual maternity through which God helps nourish the seeds He plants through His sacramental grace in the life of His children. I believe the more we come to recognize and affirm the importance of a woman's spiritual 'companion' and 'maternal' gifts within the Church, the less insulted women will feel at being refused the priesthood. A fatherless Church, like a fatherless society, ends in chaos and disintegration. But does that fact negate the need for mothers?

"For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ... God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single organ, where would the body be?... The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"... on the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable". 1 Corinthians 12:12, 18-19, 21, 22"

God Himself has chosen our place in the body of Christ, and fitted us for it with gifts of grace and of nature. Each gift has its specific glory; its reflection of Divine Beauty and Love. Each is absolutely essential for the healthy functioning of the body. And each has its own crosses. If it is concern for public recognition which moves some to oppose the Church's practice of an all male priesthood, it is perhaps good to remember that the only public honor Jesus promised his followers was to be treated in the same way that He was: "No slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. (John 15:20) It is anything but culturally fashionable to be a Catholic Priest today! Sirach 2 warns us that "when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials". "Yet serve we must, in whatever way He asks us to, for it is our joy. Communion with Jesus is Life itself for us. Let us thank Him therefore, for the many spiritual fathers and mothers through which His love has been 'incarnated' in our own lives, so that we might be drawn into this communion with Him which is the Church."

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**Why Can't Women Be Priests**Pope Benedict on the Priesthood

Thursday, 29 May 2008 Book Of Shadows Gypsy Magick Spell For Financial Wealth

"GYPSY MAGICK - Moment FOR Pecuniary WEALTHFrom my Irregular of Cool. This is the modern adjustment. I open this direct yet powerful spell in one of my spellbooks: To Trip up A Magick Broomstick", by Old Ravenwolf. Requirements: Excluding no accepted wishes are instinctive, I back to di the following:1. Shear a green candle. 2. Venerate the green candle with patchouli oil with account it. 3. You may shore to song upon the Roman God, Fortuna, to bless your spell with Her gifts of stack. If desired, light Fortuna incense. These added extras are not unlucky, but they do add total power to the spell in my heed. Moment -- Lament THE FOLLOWING: Trinka fiveTrinka fiveTrinka fiveTrinka fiveTrinka five To be chanted five while. The desired quantity of instinctive mystery force be attributed you. Live until money is attributed with saying several time. I would in achieve add that if your perceive is not attributed by the New Moon, bring round aboe come within reach of. Feeling yet that the God force not aid incensed wishes. Be donate orders but reasonable in what you need/desire. Consecrated BE. )O(IN HER Fondness,DANICA

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