Category: Readings

The Significance of the Color Purple An Enclave Given Birth During the Dark Night of the Soul Traders Moon Ceremony, November 14, 2016 After a bountiful Traders moon feast, we gather here, Nine Holy Women, under this the Supermoon, which is casting a powerful healing light upon our wounded planet.  Before we call upon our…

Beltane and the Lovely Month of May This ceremony includes the crowning of our May Queen, May 5, 2016 Seed Moon Ceremony For most of our ceremonies and daily blessings, we embrace the good of modern-day Christianity and reject the corruption.  In remembrance of the victimization of our ancestral peoples by that religion, and because…

The Final Hours before the Final Vows by Sister Kate, February 2017 Last night’s full moon was a reminder to me of how far we have come in such a short time.  As I retreated to my room with laptop under arm to play some meditative music, light a candle, and rest in preparation for…

Expanding the Sisterhood Book of the New Beguines There is an old saying by the Catholic nuns that ‘Many are called; few are chosen’.  We find this to be true. The enclave of our Sisterhood/Brotherhood is not original.  It is not new. Beguine revivalism is happening in many places on planet earth right now, in…

A New Age Order of Nuns Book of the New Beguines, Sister Kate The Catholic nun is going extinct in this country.  I know, because I did a little research during my Sister Occupy years, and although the church is very non-transparent about this and all things (in a long-standing tradition), what I learned was…

The Choice of Uniform was Deliberate Book of the New Beguines, Sister Kate The transition from Sister Occupy (Fall, 2011) to where we are today is an interesting tale too long to tell here, but it definitely represents a journey towards a calling, towards the plant, towards the clearing of the fog, the dispelling of…

The Beguines as a Model for the Sisterhood Sister Rosa’s Thesis It was clear why the Beguines provided such a fruitful role model for the Sisters.  Just like the Sisters, the Beguines did business: they did not root their existence on gifts and alms.  Similarly, they prayed, prepared natural remedies, and engaged in protest against…

Beguine Revivalists Introduction, Book of the New Beguines The Beguines were single focused women, unaffiliated with a church, who served the people, and especially, the women, in castles across Europe during the middle ages.  They provided housing and food security; they provided jobs and training and career paths.  They grew hemp and made textiles.  They…

Mutualism Autumn Moon Ceremony, Sept 2017 Rachel Cato, Ethnography of Religion Western Kentucky University, May 10, 2017 An Ethnography of the Sisters of the Valley:  Looking at an Ecofeminist Approach to Religion From pages 24 to 27 (condensed) Mutualism is a relationship that benefits both parties, and that is what one would have to say…

Ecofeminists by all Accounts Woman’s Moon Ceremony August 2017 Lina Samuelsson – Visions of Autonomy “. . . Although they do not identify with Christianity, these nuns advocate what I describe as a radical religion anchored in ecofeminism, as their society values Mother Earth, nature, and feminist thought more so than many established religions and…