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Clergy Council Activities - Beltaine Season 2018

Beltaine/Samhain Greetings!

Let me begin by welcoming our two newest Priests, Rev. Lauren Mart from Texas and Rev. Chelly Couvrette from Ontario. Chelly is our second current Canadian Priest. Both of our Canadian Priests are from Dancing Lights Grove. Lauren is from Nine Waves Grove.

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Clergy Council Activities - Beltaine Season 2018

Beltaine/Samhain Greetings!

Let me begin by welcoming our two newest Priests, Rev. Lauren Mart from Texas and Rev. Chelly Couvrette from Ontario. Chelly is our second current Canadian Priest. Both of our Canadian Priests are from Dancing Lights Grove. Lauren is from Nine Waves Grove.

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Clergy Council Activities - Vernal Season 2018

Vernal Greetings!

The Clergy Council has been busy this season so far.

Two new Priests will be ordained, based upon Clergy Council votes this season. Rev. Lauren Mart and Rev. Chelly Couvrette are now members of the Clergy Council and will be ordained in April and May, respectively. We look forward to their presence in our ranks.

Three committees have been formed in the Clergy Council to address existing needs:

Group Protection Work

Inter-Group Communications with Hospitality and Frith

Self-Evaluation and Reflection work

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A Setting Sun

A Setting Sun

 

I watched the sun setting tonight, deep and red, a sign of things passing and the long quiet road to the West. We look to the Sun as a guidepost: the morning Sun is new and hopeful; the evening Sun is mournful and passing. I felt that passing tonight.

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Clergy Renewal

Clergy Credential Renewals will be coming up very soon. Please keep the following information in mind when completing your renewal documents - this is what an ADF Priest should be doing today:

The role of the Priest in ADF is tied strongly to the roles of the Clergy Council. Paraphrased from the CC Bylaws, those roles are:

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Veteran's Day

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, an armistice was signed ending the war to end all wars, the Great War, what is now known as World War One.  Since then, we have had more wars, and have more veterans of military service.  The day was renamed in 1954 here in the US to Veterans Day.
 
Today is a day to set aside our personal feelings about war, and about the military.  It is not about us, but about recognizing those that have selflessly served our country, for that service is surely a sacrifice that they have made.
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The Value of Watching

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A Blessing of Forgetfulness

"We always light the HearthMother's lamp while cooking."

 

This familiar phrase, shared with many of our guests when they inquire about our practice of having a small oil lamp burning on the back of our stovetop, isn't always true. Many times, absolutes like 'always' and 'never' aren't accurate. Sometimes being human means forgetting things, and tonight was one of those times.

 

Gods be praised.

 

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Muin As Prophecy

Muin As Prophecy

Muin as prophecy;

Straight as an arrow

Or spear,

A trunk stands tall.

One branch raised

To the sky,

To the Shining Ones, portend;

One branch lowered

To the depths,

To the Ancestors, as consul;

One trunk solid,

As a foundation,

As a bridge.

As the Sun rises,

I hold myself in this position,

Imprinted on the sky,

Standing on the land,

Shadowed on the ground:

What will this day bring?

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Reflections from the Mother Grove Retreat

March 22, 2015

I write this after arriving home safe from the ADF Mother Grove retreat, in Chicago. Air travel was easy, and Kirk ran all the arrangements and organizing like a boss.

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