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Last Quarter of the Winter Moon
Something I’ve thought about for a while.
A Sacrament
water from our well, bread from local grain and cheese from Minnesota, candles
Light candle(s).
Say to all: See this light, not as symbol, but as energy brought to us by fire from the sky and fire from deep beneath the earth. By the light of this fire we see this water, this bread, this cheese.
On the table or altar have the pitcher, a cup, a plate with bread not broken and cheese not broken
Water in an earthenware pitcher. Pour into a single cup.
To each person as they take the cup: take this and drink it, not as symbol, but as substance, the necessary liquid of all life as blood is the necessary liquid in our body.
Break the bread and hand pieces to each person
Say to all: Eat this bread, not as symbol, but as substance, the marriage of earth and sun which gives birth to grain.
Break the cheese and hand pieces to each person
Eat this cheese as a gift from one mammal to another, food which sustains us.
Say to all: This water, this bread, this cheese transforms itself even now into your body, one link in the sacred chain stretching back to the one-celled organism, our common ancestor, and forward to our descendants, who may be as different from us as we are from that one cell. This is a miracle.
Go now in peace.
