35\u00a0 91%\u00a0 23%\u00a0 2mph ESE bar29.06 steady windchill34\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n
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Something I’ve thought about for a while.<\/p>\n
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water from our well,\u00a0bread from local grain and cheese from Minnesota, candles<\/p>\n
Light candle(s).<\/em><\/p>\n Say to all:\u00a0 See this light, not as symbol, but as\u00a0energy brought to us by\u00a0fire from the sky and fire from deep beneath the earth.\u00a0 By the light of this fire we see this water, this bread, this cheese.<\/p>\n On the table or altar have the pitcher, a cup, a plate with bread not broken and cheese not broken<\/p>\n Water in an earthenware pitcher. Pour into a single cup.<\/em><\/p>\n To each person as they take the cup:\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n Break the bread and hand pieces to each person<\/em><\/p>\n Say to all:\u00a0 Eat this bread, not as symbol, but as substance, the marriage of earth and sun which gives birth to grain.<\/p>\n Break the cheese and hand pieces to each person<\/em><\/p>\n Eat this cheese as a gift from one mammal to another, food which sustains us.<\/p>\n \u00a0Say to all:\u00a0\u00a0This water, this bread, this\u00a0cheese\u00a0transforms 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.\u00a0 This is a miracle.<\/p>\n Go now in peace.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 35\u00a0 91%\u00a0 23%\u00a0 2mph ESE bar29.06 steady windchill34\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last Quarter of the Winter Moon Something I’ve thought about for a while. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Sacrament water from our well,\u00a0bread from local grain and cheese from Minnesota, candles Light candle(s). Say to all:\u00a0 See this light, not as symbol, but as\u00a0energy brought to us by\u00a0fire … Continue reading A Sacrament From Mother Earth<\/span>