nothing about your title spoke to me out of the ordinarily, but for some reason i clicked and read someone else whose journey with religion feels similar to my own. i miss the catholicism and the parishes of my youth, and the strong, certain knowing that i was/am protected. recently i was invited back but got close enough for my embodied experience to tell me everything i needed to know: i can never go back there. not to structure, penance and sin. nor to the beauty and safe haven that i’d known. but i can and do take the rituals and the objects (pagan in origin anyway), i can and will read the mystics and the lost gospels, and i can and am back with that certainty of my youth: God is everywhere, Mother Mary and the angels watch over me, and i can reach out to them all directly. i am protected. the sacred is in me -- my voice and songs, especially in Latin, my work, and my everything. that is the mystery and the miracle.
Thank you so much for reading and for sharing a bit of your journey with me. And good on you for listening to your inner knowing that said no no, not this way. Blessings on your journey.
nothing about your title spoke to me out of the ordinarily, but for some reason i clicked and read someone else whose journey with religion feels similar to my own. i miss the catholicism and the parishes of my youth, and the strong, certain knowing that i was/am protected. recently i was invited back but got close enough for my embodied experience to tell me everything i needed to know: i can never go back there. not to structure, penance and sin. nor to the beauty and safe haven that i’d known. but i can and do take the rituals and the objects (pagan in origin anyway), i can and will read the mystics and the lost gospels, and i can and am back with that certainty of my youth: God is everywhere, Mother Mary and the angels watch over me, and i can reach out to them all directly. i am protected. the sacred is in me -- my voice and songs, especially in Latin, my work, and my everything. that is the mystery and the miracle.
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Thank you so much for reading and for sharing a bit of your journey with me. And good on you for listening to your inner knowing that said no no, not this way. Blessings on your journey.
Excellent read!