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Keys & Crossroads: St. Peter Service begins June 29th

• altar work • community altar work • crossroads • keys • overcoming obstacles • road opener • road opening • saint peter • st. peter

Keys & Crossroads: St. Peter Service begins June 29th

St. Peter is an enormously popular saint who is called on for all kinds of things.He was appointed by Christ as the first pope of the church, and the keys signify his authority as its first prelate and the authority of the church to bind and loose β€” basically to open and close the gates of heaven. This is essentially what gives the church the authority to administer the sacrament of reconciliation and thus forgive sins, opening the gates to heaven for the penitent. He’s an ally when you need a road or doorway opened (or closed!), and he’s the...

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Keys & Crossroads: Feast of St. Peter Road Opening Service

• altar art • community altar work • crossroads • legba • lwa • patron saints • road opening • saint peter • saints • working with saints

Keys & Crossroads: Feast of St. Peter Road Opening Service

Have a light fixed, blessed, dressed, and set on my altar with your petition or prayer and worked in your name or the name of a loved one, in a communityΒ altar and prayer serviceΒ beginning on June 29th,Β the feast day of St. Peter. St. Peter was appointed by Christ as the first pope of the church, and the keys signify his authority as its first prelate and the authority of the church to bind and loose β€” basically to open and close the gates of heaven. This is essentially what gives the church the authority to administer the sacrament of reconciliation...

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Keys & Crossroads: Feast of St. Peter Community Altar Service Begins Tonight

• community altar work • crossroads • keys • road opening • st. peter

Keys & Crossroads: Feast of St. Peter Community Altar Service Begins Tonight

Have a light fixed, blessed, dressed, and set on my altar with your petition or prayer and worked in your name or the name of a loved one, in a communityΒ altar and prayer serviceΒ beginning on June 29th,Β the feast day of St. Peter.Β There is some wiggle room and you can join up after the work starts as long as you see that there are still spots left and it doesn’t say β€œsold out.” St. Peter was appointed by Christ as the first pope of the church, and the keys signify his authority as its first prelate and the authority of the...

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Red Eyes (and Black Dogs and Water Spirits)

• black dogs • conjure in fiction • crossroads • draugr • fairy tales • family mythology • family narrative • florida • folklore • ghost stories • haints • iceland • jacksonville • mississippi • monsters • old red eyes • pensacola • personal mythology • rawhead and bloody bones • sackabilly • shapeshifters • st. rumbold • the unquiet dead

Red Eyes (and Black Dogs and Water Spirits)

[This was originally posted in 2019 on my personal blog that’s mostly about family history projects. I’m reposting it here because it references a few things that might be of interest to some of y’all.] [Remember, this blog here at the shop address is a mirror / backup of the real Seraphin Station blog here. Visit there comment, ask questions, get responses, interact with others, see useful and interesting links and resources, and/or read all the blog posts, not just the highlights I repost here.] Red Eyes was one of my great-grandmother Mae’sΒ stories to scare the crap out of children...

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