Feast Days for the Radically Reverent ~ Christmas

Christmas – the birthing time, the blessing time, one of my personal favorite times because there are animals and stars and foreigners who come from afar, and regular people who are holiest of holy in their every day selves.

Christmas is one of those moments that was so powerful that no religion, no matter how vast, could completely lose or look over its wild and thrumming heartbeat. Last year I told a story about Christmas, how I see it, how we celebrate it in my family, how the Sacred Heart was born for us and perhaps you too. 

Our Christmas rite is a time to honor what has been born within your life over the course of this last year, and all who have stood with you and celebrated those births, and all who blessed you through and with them, and even a time to remember those who perhaps stood as threats against you and yours, for they too require blessing and we too are deep and strong enough of heart to give such blessing without giving away ourselves. Christmas is the time to honor your scared and sacred heart beating even now.

Areas to especially consider as you make your petition include:

  • Making room for what is ready to be born
  • Opening the doors
  • Trusting your beloveds
  • Speaking with (and listening to) animals, angels, and spirits
  • Following the Star
  • Giving and Receiving gifts and giftedness
  • Believing

As always, those who wish to add extra magic to their celebrations may order the custom candle for December: JOY. Find it here.

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Briana Saussy Spinning Gold

What are Feast Days for the Radically Reverent?

Born into a family full of many devoted Catholic practitioners, Feast Days are one of the aspects of folk tradition that I love best. There are hundreds of Feast Days – in fact, according to official Catholic calendars every single day is a feast day – and that alone is a though worth pondering – what would happen if you treated every day as a feast day?

Years ago in my own practice I began creating altars and honoring ceremonies on Feast Days that have deep personal significance to me and inviting my community of soulful seekers to join in the process of honoring by sending in their own prayer requests, blessing ways, petitions, and thanks givings.

The results are always stunning. They remind me again and again that the act of blessing is transformative and also deeply universal — every year individuals from all over the world and many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds identifying as Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and followers of various alternative spiritual paths come together in blessing. It is a profound time always and one felt deeply by all participants.

These Feast Days can be found on various calendars but we celebrate them together with one thing in common – radical reverence; this is reverence that goes right down to the root of things in plain speech and in direct, heart-felt actions.

Feast Days for the Radically Reverent are open to all people who would like to come together to celebrate, request, and bless. They are 100% free of charge and always will be.