It never fails to amaze me how well being Priestess in the Mass serves to banish any and all vestiges of illness....

...for precisely the duration of the ritual and no longer.

*goes back to hacking up a lung*

I'm running dangerously low on red wine leavings (also known as dregs or lees). Andrei spent a good portion of the morning calling wineries trying to find out where I could acquire more. One place had just gotten rid of theirs for the year, and only did white wine anyway; a bunch of others weren't answering their phones; and another had no idea ( Read more... )

Aiden's cold has worsened to bronchitis - possibly pneumonia. He's on antibiotics now ( Read more... )

Unless I miss my mark, they're talking about thick leavings of red wine here.

Take communion - fight off disease!

Winemaking waste proves effective against disease-causing bacteria

I've been pondering what to write in more detail about my ordination. I could give the specifics of the ceremony (what I remember, anyway - large parts of it are somewhat blurry). I could say how the Mass afterwards felt, which was certainly remarkable, but from a skeptical point of view the differences could as easily be attributed to the large ( Read more... )

To the person who just had delivered a beautiful arrangement of white roses to me -

Thank you! They're beautiful!
Who are you? There was no name, just a note: "Congratulations on your EGC Priestess ordination!"

More detail later, perhaps, once I let it settle in a bit. But it was everything I had hoped for and more.

I am an ordained Priestess of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.

Robes repaired ( Read more... )

Announcements in brief ( Read more... )

That was a truly fabulous Mass. I am feeling better about the universe in so many ways now.