I am very interested in how people or priests, preistesses, pastors, rabbi's any religious leader or patron creates sacred space to worship or pray in.
When a Catholic is praying at home, do you do anything special? When you are doing the novena, for example.
How does your priest or pastor or rabbi make the building you worship in "sacred" or set apart from the world as a "holy" place? I am not excluding Muslims, here. I simply do not know what a religious leader in a mosque is called. (someone can fill me in on that, too.)
And, Pagans, what do you do differently in a group inside, or outside or alone at home to make "sacred" space?
Thanks, I am very interested and hope people will share.
~Michelle
When a Catholic is praying at home, do you do anything special? When you are doing the novena, for example.
How does your priest or pastor or rabbi make the building you worship in "sacred" or set apart from the world as a "holy" place? I am not excluding Muslims, here. I simply do not know what a religious leader in a mosque is called. (someone can fill me in on that, too.)
And, Pagans, what do you do differently in a group inside, or outside or alone at home to make "sacred" space?
Thanks, I am very interested and hope people will share.
~Michelle
Creating a circle of energy that is visualized is nice sometimes, but I am most familiar with creating a circle in group ritual and worship. The circle can be walked out with the elements and all participating lend their energy to it's creation. Candles, scents, incense, stones, flowers and similiar things can play a part.
it must be different here, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA where I've had many a conversation about this and have never sensed that it was something not desired. We talk about the fundamental cultural differences which seem very difficult to overcome, but we always seem to leave it with "God, with whom, all things are possible."
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