All Samhain all the time

[lizwilliams]

It pretty much is around here until Tuesday. It's been a strange, mild, misty day here, and I went to a druidic ritual at Stanton Drew with 49 other people - good to catch up with those of you on LJ! Back in town, the shop has had a good day with minimum problems from the Catholic Retreat, although I think someone might have holy- watered our athame cabinet, from my employee's account. There's also a group of traders' relatives going round town letting shop workers know that they're on hand if there's any trouble. You wouldn't think a Catholic youth march would bring violence and shoplifting in its wake, but you'd be wrong: apart from carnival, it's always the most problematic event of the year. I think, however, that whoever is in charge of it has had a stern word about, you know, actual Christian behaviour.

Comments

[ohilya.livejournal.com]

*wonders*

D'ye by chance know if there're any Wiccans in the Moscow area? I'm not one myself, but you lot have some deliciously lovely rituals, which I love to attend.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I think there must be but I don't know of anyone personally. I could make enquiries, if you like?

[ohilya.livejournal.com]

Could you? I know it's on short notice, but I would be immensely greatful.

[kyrialyse.livejournal.com]

"You wouldn't think a Catholic youth march would bring violence and shoplifting in its wake..."

::is inclined to be reminded of the Crusades::

Really, I'm posting to tell you that I LOVED DARKLAND. And ordered BLOODMIND yesterday from amazon.uk, because I'm just not willing to wait and see if either book ever comes out here in the U.S.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

>::is inclined to be reminded of the Crusades::

LOL!

I'm so pleased you liked DARKLAND. Hope its sequel lives up to expectations!

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't think a Catholic youth march would bring violence and shoplifting in its wake...

Could this be an unfortunate side effect of the whole confession, penance and forgiveness thing?

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Possibly! Although I think it's more a case of this particular group recruiting the more, er, troubled sections of society and then being unable to control them.

This particular retreat is a fairly extreme branch of the faith and explicitly comes to Glastonbury to 'reclaim' it from the 'Satanists.' Ironically, there are very few practising Satanists in town.

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok, that makes more sense. I'd envisioned them as a bunch of junior John Henry Newmans, pasty bible scholars going around and raising hell with an incomprehensibly Victorian version of Catholicism, but it sounds like they're more Inquisitionally minded. So much, I guess, for all that stuff about turning the other cheek. Maybe they haven't got to that bit of the bible yet. Maybe they're still mired in all those thou-shalt-nots at the beginning...

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

>Ah, ok, that makes more sense. I'd envisioned them as a bunch of junior John Henry Newmans, pasty bible scholars going around and raising hell with an incomprehensibly Victorian version of Catholicism

Priceless! Yes, questioning the theology of locals via some form of Hegelian dialectic...

The bloke who caused most of the trouble, who had a huge banner saying 'I LOVE JESUS' on his van, clearly hasn't got to grips with the basics of Christian doctrine. Yes, but does He love you? I know he loves everyone, but...you do wonder.