May 2016 WATERritual - Sally Ride: Reaching for the Stars
This ritual focuses on celebrating Sally Ride, the first American woman in outer space.
April 2016 WATERritual - Earth Day: Women Healing Earth
This ritual focuses on Earth healing women who work for land rights, provide access to water, grow gardens, and respond to climate change.
March 2016 WATERritual - International Women’s Day: Solidarity with Comadres of El Salvador
We continue our monthly ritual series to raise up wise women. The Comadres of El Salvador are the Mothers who fight for human rights by demanding the reappearance of their disappeared and murdered family members and loved ones.
February 2016 WATERritual - Embraced by Brigit: A Breath of Spring
We continue our monthly ritual series to raise up wise women. According to Celtic spirituality, women’s power was most manifest in Brigit of Ireland−goddess, saint, and threshold figure. She bridged the worlds between rich and poor, pagan and Christian, slave and free.
January 2016 WATERritual - Inspired by Sojourner Truth: Living the Dream
We continue our monthly ritual series to raise up wise women by reflecting on Sojourner Truth. She was a Spirit-led activist for abolition, women’s rights, and non-violence, and she continues to inspire us today. Share with a close-knit or newly formed group. Or enjoy on your own.
January 2016 Catholic Lesbian/Queer Liturgy: Celebrating Our Epiphanies
by Diann L. Neu | "Celebrating Our Epiphanies," January 10, 2016
December 2015 WATERritual - Re-Imagining Mary: A Woman Today
This holiday season we continue our monthly ritual series to raise up wise women. In the following ritual, we reflect on Mary as a symbol of the oppressed, the forgotten, and those in search of a home for their children, by looking at the many faces of Mary.
November 2015 WATERritual: Thanks for Wise Women
This Thanksgiving season we express our gratitude for the wise women in our lives. We honor wise women from goddesses to biblical women, women of recorded history to the women in our lives.
October 2015 Ritual: Prayers for Women with Cancer
The following prayers unite us with those who have or have had cancer, their friends, colleagues, and loved ones. And some have said, these prayers are helpful for all of us.
September 2015 Ritual: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
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