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Reflections on gratitude, thankfulness, and grace from a pagan perspective. Prayer and book was written by LB. O'Ceallaigh (me). Purchase at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com It is drawn from my family traditions and my own spiritual life and practice.

Enter the multiverse of life and the marvels it proposes. Come with me where this multiverse hangs in jeopardy and the Soul of a young boy is the balancing point for three worlds!

Apart from the Christian sacraments or mysteries, the use of signs and seals are nearly universal if not wholly so. As Augustine has said in Latin “In nullum nomen religionis, seu verum seu falsum, coadunari homines possunt, nisi aliquo signaculorum seu sacramentorum visibilium consortio colligantur” . Roughly translated, apart from the popular translations, it means “Nothing which is named in religion, whether true or false, which has the power to unite humans, does not, at some time, use visible signs or sacraments to draw together their community.” These signs draw together families, friends, societies, into a cohesive whole to experience and express the Mystery of the Divine. With each of these, one can experience grace, and when they are written down, if the community be so inclined, others can learn as well. Here in the Liturgical Sacramentary of Ecclesia Seclorum, the Irish celebration and season of Imbholc can be shared and celebrated in its mysteries so that all can enjoy through its perusal . BUY YOUR COPY TODAY!!! https://www.amazon.com/Liturgical-Sacramentary-Imbolc-Ecclesia-Sacramentaries-ebook/dp/B07S667GQM https://www.ecclesiaseclorum.com/product-page/liturgical-sacramentary-imbolc

In the modern era of polarities, the political rhetoric of views of the truth are often one sided and dialogue becomes nearly impossible. In the area of domestic violence and abuse, this is especially true. On one side there is the push for truth that comes out to protect women and children from misogyny, and this is good. The other side pushes for a silence based on principles of an overly rigorous litigation that frequently leaves the presumed aggressor to be the male at all times, this is wrong. Even should this male be quiet, passive, or in my own case handicapped, the presumption is that men are always the aggressor. The scales are so often unbalanced on all sides of the issue. The problem with this is that it leaves many people unable to leave abuse, and the children get caught in the middle. In cases, such as my own, a father and his children are often left alone and without support and tragedy occurs and sometimes death. Yet statistics on these matters are frequently not enough, because of political cohesion, and their suffering goes unheeded because of this. As such, men and children are left to suffer in silence. Like the cover art, the abused are left chained to their environments, while the abuser is left to peck at the family at their leisure, while the society around them go about their lives. This should not happen! Domestic violence is a human issue, even should the population of males be a smaller demographic. So, when my boys and I were able to get free from the abuse, I knew something needed to be said. A voice needed to be heard. Not one just for myself as a person with a neurological disorder, but for my children and all others in abuse. Here is my story, but also my children's story. It is just as much about their story as it is about mine. It is a story about generational abuse for myself and my progeny. My children and all children are not merely survivors but heroes, in these situations, and as heroes they should not suffer in silence and chained to abuse and violence as a hereditary structure but should be a Prometheus unchained. Men who tried to be good spouses and fathers should also enjoy the perks of their heroic endeavours. Heroes have the right to bleed in the open, not chained in silence and left to suffer for their benign but injured actions. This is especially true for children. However, statistics are never enough. A clinical review is never enough. Their stories must be told, from beginning to end. For with each story told, there is a clearer emotional tie to those that suffer in silence, often for years. With one story told, there is the implicit call to others to tell their story and not suffer in silence. With each story told, courage can be given to others to step into the light and tell their stories, and to acknowledge the human problems we all face. This is our story; this is my story. It is an intertwined story of love, abuse, sorrow over mistakes, and parental guilt at times. Most of all it is a story that, hopefully, will call out to those secret heroes that still suffer that they might bring their story into the light, so that their scars and wounds might be brought into societal clarity. Those that survive are not merely survivors, they are heroes, and they do not need to be invulnerable but have the right to bleed, to show their scars and wounds that come from their sacrifices and losses. This, perhaps, will show others who are also wounded that it is not weakness to be a survivor. It is an act of heroism. Buy now on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Have-Right-Bleed-Ceallaigh-ebook/dp/B0863FF243 Or for a discounted price at EcclesiaSeclorum.com: https://www.ecclesiaseclorum.com/product-page/heroes-have-the-right-to-bleed

Religion, and mythic creatures have been intertwined for such an expansive part of our history that even today these mythic creatures, however redacted and glamourized, are still within our global culture and individual societies. Their presence is either glorified or made into horrid objects in our media, literature, and our entertainment. They can be a source of everything from comedy to a serious drama that builds a fanbase of millions, but there is more to it than that. These "monsters" are often resurrected legends and superstitions that are the shining revenants that sparkle on the movie screen. What is forgotten, unfortunately, is the truth behind these revenants and the human tragedy as well. Their rise was not from imagination and fearful ignorance alone. Many have acquired their ghastly visages, merely from superstition and torture of real-life human beings. This superstition was, in these and all periods, a “perverse excess of religion” that "attributes importance, in some way magical to practices, otherwise lawful" These superstitions were not baseless fictions but rather not approached in a logical and reasonable manner to the laws of nature and naturalistic thinking. Families suffered unspeakably for something they had no control over. It was from these superstitious and supernally themed theologies that the monsters or revenants were made legend. In this book, the authors show that time and time again naturalistic thinking and the scientific method has created a more benign environment for human survival than superstition arising from religious theologies, and that it was religion itself and its theologies that created negative structures towards the ill and suffering that it simply did not have to create. Come, then, with the authors, and discover the truthful origins of vampires, werewolves, and zombies. See how a lack of naturalistic thinking allowed viruses and bacteria to shape our theologies, and how these religious theologies, shaped our ethical conduct towards other human beings for the worse. Buy today on Amazon.com: https://www.ecclesiaseclorum.com/product-page/retroviruses-revenants-and-religion Or on EcclesiaSeclorum.com for a discount: https://www.ecclesiaseclorum.com/product-page/retroviruses-revenants-and-religion attribution and licensing for sounds "Dramatic Organ, B.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org "Spooky Atmosphere.aif" by Tim Gormly of Freesound.org "Dramatic Violins.aif" by Alonsotm of Freesound.org

Alex was ordinary in so many ways, just a plain teenage kid. At least that was what it was like for almost sixteen years. Then an extraordinary event changed all that. He went from a wealthy, but ordinary, handicap boy to a force to be reckoned with. From obscurity to be called to a greater destiny than he could ever imagined. From out of this world, a life called to him that shifted not only his life but of everyone around him. His decision became a balancing point but not just for himself and his world but for many worlds. His decisions now, not only affected his world and his universe but so much more that he could imagine. His Soul, his life, was the tipping point and this story was only the beginning! Buy now at Amazon or Barnes & Noble: https://www.amazon.com/Souls-Inverse-Red-Sun-Book-ebook/dp/B08BW986BC https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/souls-inverse-quinn-kelly/1137239870

So many begin their understanding of Jesus as a purely religious figure, historical figure, or mythic icon but frequently it is His humanity that is concretely withheld from his presentation. In all honesty, His personhood becomes a matter of academics or religiosity. But what if we saw Him and His story as part of the beatific tapestry of human existence. If His story and inextricably tied to our own an His humanity was not unlike our own? Would we see Him as one of us? Can we now that He is so distant in history. Come with the authors and examine the minute details of His life in the first of a series. Buy today at Amazon.com or from the Ecclesia Seclorum shop for a special discount: https://www.ecclesiaseclorum.com/product-page/jesus-the-unknown-god https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-God-L-B-%C3%93-Ceallaigh-ebook/dp/B0B9KTPFQM