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All Souls Vigil Service β Novena & Chaplet for the Dead: Nov 2-10
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Have lights set and worked on my altar in aΒ nine-day community altarΒ serviceΒ beginning the night ofΒ November 2nd, All Souls Day.Β There is some wiggle room andΒ you can join up after the work startsΒ as long as you see that there are still spots left and it doesnβt say βsold out.β Along with setting and working lights in the name of your loved one, I willΒ performΒ aΒ nine-day novena and daily recitationΒ of the Chaplet of the Dead, with appropriate offerings, incense, and other materials. The Chaplet of the Dead is a four-decade rosary that includes prayers such as the De Profundis (Psalm 130) and prayers...
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An Old Irish Prayer to the Archangels by the days of the week
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Resurrecting an old blog post with a few variations on prayers to the seven archangels by days of the week. I could have sworn I had a blog post about lorica here, and I was gonna introduce it in the context of the prayer we usually call the Breastplate of St. Patrick, since that is a type of lorica prayer. But I canβt find the blog post I could swear once existed. Maybe it didnβt make the livejournal-to-wordpress transition intactβ¦ In any case, these are prayers for protection that are uniquely Irish in character and that work in remarkably somatic...
New chaplets!
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St. Michael Niner Chaplet St. Expedite Chaplet
recent reading roundup: poison, atchafalaya ethnology, faith healing in Louisiana
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[Remember, this blog here at the shop address is a mirror / backup of the real Seraphin Station blog here. Visit there to 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.] photo credit jclk8888, Pixabay I don't have time to summarize anything right now, but I'm hoping if I leave this here, it'll spur me to do so later. James H. Diaz. Atlas of Human Poisoning and Envenoming, 2nd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2014. Hilda Roberts. "Louisiana Superstitions." Journal...