Category: Angels and Other Beings of Light

  • September 27th ~~ St. Vincent de Paul

    One of my favorite Saints, EVER! Why? Partly because of the quotes at  the bottom of this post, and he did great works for the poor, and is the patron Saint of Charities,  but also, because, well, he was known to be a grouch! Granted, a grouch who was extremely sensitive to the needs of others, but also human as well, with his own frailties.  I have not ever read about a Saint before where they were quite described in this manner, and it brings to the fore for me that we can all do good work, and sometimes, just sometimes, not feel very "Saintly" Anyway, if you would like to read more about St Vincent De Paul, please look here!

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

    "Strive to live content in the midst of those things that cause your discontent. Free your mind from all that troubles you, God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this [choice] without, so to speak, grieving the heart of God, because he sees that you do not honor him sufficiently with holy trust. Trust in him, I beg you, and you will have the fulfillment of what your heart desires" (St. Vincent de Paul, Letters).    

     "Love is inventive to the point of infinity"
     

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  • May 15th – Special Day for Cousin Azacca and Saint Isidore 😉

    May
    15th is a special day – it is the feast day of our beloved Cousin
    Azacca, as well as St Isidore the Farmer, who Cousin Azacca is syncretized with    .

    You
    can read the free Spellmaker.com newsletter about Cousin Azacca here :

    http://www.spellmaker.com/SpellmakerNewsletter/Issue2.htm

    Isidore
    the Farmer, (Spanish:     San Isidro Labrador), (c. 1070 – May 15, 1130), was a Spanish day laborer.
    Isidore was born to very poor yet very pious Catholic parents in Madrid, Spain.
    His parents were unable to support him when he was a youth and sent him to work
    for a wealthy landowner, John de Vergas (He ended up working for him for the
    rest of his life). St. Isidore loved to attend the
    Holy Mass before going to work in the morning. Because of this, he usually
    arrived late at work. His fellow workers complained to their master Juan de
    Vargas who investigated the matter by himself. He found out the truth that St.
    Isidore went to mass daily and arrived at work late. Moreover, he discovered
    something – that while St. Isidore was praying in the church, his angels plowed
    the field for Him. He also discovered that while St. Isidore was plowing the
    field, two angels plowed with him at his sides so that his work was equivalent
    to the work of three farmers. From then on, they respected him.     He was
    known for his love of the poor, and there are accounts of Isidore’s supplying
    them miraculously with food. here was also an
    occasion when one snowy day, when going to the mill with corn to be ground
    which his wife had gleaned, he passed a flock of wood-pigeons scratching vainly
    for food on the hard surface of the frosty ground. Taking pity on the poor
    animals, he poured half of his sack of precious corn upon the ground for the
    birds, despite the mocking of witnesses. When he reached the mill, however, the
    bag was full, and the corn, when it was ground, produced double the expected
    amount of flour.     He had a great concern for the proper treatment of
    animals. He died May 15, 1130, and was declared a saint in 1622 with Ignatius
    of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila and Philip Neri. Together, the group
    is known in Spain as “the five saints.”

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    Patron
    Saint of farmers, field hands, day laborers, ranchers, livestock, rural
    communities and asking for rain.

    Saint
    Isidore the Farmer is invoked for the concerns affecting livestock,
    agriculture, and good weather and is even invoked for picnics.

    From the Spellmaker.com newsletter: No matter what you are trying to
    grow in your life, May 15 is the perfect day to offer a feast to Azacca! Set up
    a small altar using his colors and offerings: A piece of denim makes the
    perfect altar cloth for him, yellow and green candles, a container of dirt,
    small gardening tools, etc. Spend some time thinking of what plants need
    nurturing in your life garden and ask Azacca to nourish them and help them
    grow! Ask him to renew and rejuvenate any wilting plants and cut out all the
    weeds!

    Have a great day and a wonderful weekend! Get out there and play in some dirt!

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

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  • September 5 ~~ Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

    Hi There!

    I just finished reading a book written by Mother Teresa. It made me interested in learning more about her life and her works.

    If you aren’t very familiar with Mother Teresa and her life, CNN has a nice summary here of the highlights of her life.

    Mother Teresa is on the fast track to becoming canonized. On Oct. 19, 2003, Pope John Paul II
      beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who died in 1997. The beatification of the
      Macedonia-born nun took place in Rome, and her popularity has remained strong in the months since.    The process
                    leading up to the beatification has been the shortest in modern history. In early 1999—less than two years after Mother Teresa’s 
    death—Pope John Paul waived the normal five-year waiting period and allowed the immediate opening of her canonization cause.    In 2002, the Pope recognized the healing of an Indian woman as the miracle needed to beatify Mother Teresa of Calcutta. That healing occurred on the first anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death. It involved a non-Christian woman in India who had a huge abdominal tumor and woke up to find the tumor gone. Members of the Missionaries of Charity prayed for their founder’s intervention to help the sick woman. After her beatification, the recognition of another miracle will be required for sainthood.

    Some quotes from Mother Teresa:

    "Remember works of Love are works of Peace"

    "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

    "Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing."

     "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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    "Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each
            other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."

    Mother Teresa is a patron of the poor, of course, and of children. Children held a very special place in her heart.

    It will be interesting to follow her story, and see when / if a second miracle occurs that would make Teresa a Saint. To see someone we have seen in this lifetime be canonized would be something very special, I think 😉

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

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  • Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha

    Hi There!
    I came across the remarkable story of Kateri a couple of years ago. There isn’t a whole lot written about her. And while her life was a only a little more than 24 years, she endured an immense amount of suffering during very turbulent times full of disease and fighting. Also, she is the FIRST Native American to be beatified and considered for Sainthood. 

    Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
    (1656-1680) Feast Day July 14th.

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    Her life briefly:

    Kateri Tekakwitha was born in Ossernenon in the year 1656. She was born into this world a child
        of mixed anchestry, her mother was an Algonquin and her father a Mohawk. Kateri became an orphan in the year 1660, when the smallpox epidemic nearly destroyed the entire village, taking the lives of Kateri’s parents and her brother.
       

     

    Kateri was then adopted by an uncle who had great hatred for the Christian people. The smallpox
        disease left Kateri with scarred skin and really terrible eyesight.     Kateri moved to a new village with her uncle and his family.

     

    After the smallpox  epedemic had happened, they burned the old village and moved to Kahnawake.
        It was in Kahnawake that Kateri saw for the first time the men they called the Blackrobes. The Blackrobes were the Christian priests also known as the Jesuits. Their job was to convert as many natives as they could into becoming Christian. For many years Kateri avoided the Blackrobes but watched with great
        interest as they did their work. Kateri secretly wished to be baptized a Christian but feared her uncle’s reaction, so she waited until she could no longer bear to be anything but a Christian.

     

    On Easter in 1676, Kateri was baptized a Christian, and she felt very close to God. Kateri spent  many hours praying and talking to God. Over the next few years Kateri refused to marry, believing that she was married to God and no man could replace the lord in her eyes and heart. Many people ridiculed her and her religious beliefs but Kateri would not be scared or threatened into leaving Christianity, she
        was very devoted to God and the Blackrobes. Kateri escaped from her uncle and the village one day to go north to learn more about Christianity, with the help of her brother in law and a huron indian.

     

    Once she arrived at her destination, Kateri wanted to become a nun. The Blakrobes said that she was too young to do this, but Kateri proved to them that she was ready, and so they allowed her to become a sister of the mission. Kateri was very happy to spend her life as a servant of God.

     

    As the years went on, Kateri became sick with another illness, tuberculosis had infected her
        making her weak and very ill. Overtime the disease took away all of Kateri’s strength and finally it took her life.

     

    Kateri died on April 17, 1680 at the mission of Laprairie at the age of twenty-four. Those who were with her when she died said that Kateri’s scars disappeared and she became very beautiful.

     

    It is believed that Kateri has performed many miracles since her death, curing the sick and helping those in need through their prayers to Kateri. After much investigation concerning Kater’s miracles, she was declared venerable by Pope Pius XII on January 3, 1943. Kateri was then beautified by Pope John Paul II on June 30,1980.

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    This is a picture of a statue of Kateri in front of a cathedral in Santa Fe, NM. 

    Kateri is the patron of the environment,  environmentalists and ecologists. Also of nature children, small pox sufferers, parental loss and people who have been exiled or mocked or persecuted for their faith. (Any of this ring familiar, Voodooisants?)

    This site has ALOT of great info about Kateri and her work with the earth, ecology, and nature. 
    Anyone with an affinity with Gran Bwa would find this site appealing.

    Her symbols are a Lily (her favorite flower and also part of her nickname) and the turtle (the symbol of her tribe).

    This is the special prayer to lend energy towards her canonization:
    O God, who, amongst the many marvels of Thy Grace in the New World,
    didst cause to blossom on the banks of the Mohawk and of the St
    Lawrence, the pure and tender Lily, Kateri Tekakwitha, grant we beseech
    Thee, the favor we beg through her intercession, that this Young Lover
    of Jesus and of His Cross may soon be counted among the Saints of Holy
    Mother Church, and that our hearts may be enkindled with a stronger
    desire to imitate her innocence and faith. Through the same Our Lord
    Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity
    of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen. Blessed Kateri
    Tekakwitha, pray for us.

    I hope you have found this interesting.
    Light and Love
    Sister Bridget

  • Card of the Week ~~~~ April 14th, 2008

    Hi Y’all!

    Welcome to Monday! YIPPPEEEEEEE! The day before income tax day 😉 Well….here is this week’s card of the week. It goes right and in hand with the good Sister Candi’s blog post  for this week. It seems to be the theme for this week — Compassion.

    From Doreen Virtue’s Angel Oracle Cards:

    Compassion:

    Archangel Zadkiel says: Soften your heart with respect to a troubling situation, and all the people involved, including yourself.

    Sooooo — post a comment here about how you may have recognized a need to be compassionate in your life, or lets be wild and crazy and open this up to letting us know how you may have used Sister Candi’s Pink Light technique this week. Speak Up! Post a Comment! And get entered to win a free reading.

    Have a great week.

    Light and Love,

    Sister Bridget

    Zadkiel

  • Happy St Patrick’s Day!

    St_patrickbanising_snakeslarge_2  Happy St. Patrick’s Day , Everyone!

      Leaving good Damballah an offering of any white food could be a great way to get the celebration started.

    There are many legends and stories of St. Patrick, here’s his story.

    Patrick was born around 385 in Scotland, probably Kilpatrick. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britian in charge of the colonies.   As a boy of fourteen or so, he was captured during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. Ireland at this time was a land of Druids and pagans. He learned the language and practices of the people who held him.   During his captivity, he turned to God in prayer. He wrote "The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same." "I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain."   Patrick’s captivity lasted until he was twenty, when he escaped after having a dream from God in which he was told to leave Ireland by going to the coast. There he found some sailors who took him back to Britian, where he reunited with his family. He had another dream in which the people of Ireland were calling out to him "We beg you, holy youth, to come and walk among us once more." He began his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained by St. Germanus, the Bishop of Auxerre, whom he had studied under for years. Later, Patrick was ordained a bishop, and was sent to take the Gospel to Ireland.

    I found some lovely prayers to St. Patrick as well.

    Dont drink too much green beer!

    Light and Love, Sister Bridget