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Catriona Delacroix
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Posté le: Mer Juin 03, 2015 1:52 am Sujet du message: Saint Dwywai the Ecstatic Sermon |
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This was delivered in Arundel on May 30th, the feast day of Saint Dwywai.
Citation: | "Welcome to the Chapel of Arundel. Today is the Feast day of Saint Dwywai the Ecstatic, a woman who was born in Launceston in Cornwall. Saint Dwywai is famed for many things including her talent as a brewer of ale, for she believed that the drinking of water was unhealthy. During her time at the nunnery at Tarrant-Kaines in Dorset, many came from far and wide to sample her ale."
Citation: | Dwywai adapted well to life at Tarrant-Kaines. She retreated into the comforting aroma of the brewery, perfecting the craft she had learned from her mother. During her time at the Abbey, the taste and quality of the beer is said to have improved dramatically, as if the vats were blessed by Jah himself. The faithful travelled to the Abbey from throughout Dorset to taste the miraculous brew, and the Abbey was able to sustain itself through its brewing operations. Brewers throughout England began to recite Dwywai's prayer, hoping it would produce the same results:
Bless, O Jah, this creature beer, that Thou hast been pleased to bring forth from the sweetness of the grain: that it might be a salutary remedy for the human race: and grant by the invocation of Thy holy name, that, whosoever drinks of it may obtain health of body and a sure safeguard for the soul. Through Christos. Amen.
Some of the nuns believed that the beer should be reserved for sales to lay Aristotelians as it was too rich to be part of their simple lives; they sipped water to quench their thirst. Dwywai claimed she could smell the taint of sin in the Abbey's drinking water and urged the sisters to drink only ale, but her pleas did not convince them. One morning, when she was delivering bandages to the infirmary, Dwywai observed that the sick sisters were none other than those who drank only water. She beseeched the Mother Apothecary to serve them beer instead, and the sisters returned to good health almost immediately. At the time, this event was regarded as a miracle, but modern science way scholars know that Dwywai saved countless lives from such ills as the black plague by encouraging them to drink only water heated and filtered during the brewing process. |
"Yet during her life, Dwywai experienced many traumas and as a result she was often seen as an oddity, a misfit. The woman had little care for her own safety and would often attempt to harm herself, or would do things that put her in danger. She would play with fire, climb church steeples during lightning songs, roll about in barrels, sleep on rocks. None of this harmed her though. She would also suffer fits, one so severe that folk believed she had died and tried to bury her. And it is also said that she could levitate. This set her apart from the others in the town who believed she was possessed by demons ... they tried to execute her by burning her on a grid iron ... they failed. She walked away unharmed. Jah had protected her."
"Does this mean that we should expect Jah to save us if we do foolish things? If I put my hand in a fire, I know it will burn, I know I will hurt myself. But Dwywai seemed to not know that she would hurt herself. She was an innocent and perhaps it was because she was such a simple soul that Jah decided to intervene, and to not allow those who thought her eccentric and different to harm her."
"The disciples of Christos once said to him ... “Teacher, these misfits do not bring anything to us, and Aristotle warns us against those who shun the city!” Yet Christos replied, "Disciples! Live for others instead of waiting for others to live for you. It is for the city to accommodate the misfits, and not for the misfits to help the city.”
"Let us remember this, for we are all Jah's children. Accept the oddities of your neighbours and instead of shunning them, or trying to get rid of them, instead look for ways to draw them into the community. When Dwywai was at the nunnery, she was accepted and her talents were encouraged and nurtured. There the Saint was calm and happy. Let us learn from this. Love thy neighbour and go in peace." |
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Mother Catriona Mackenzie, Bishop in partibus of Ephesus |
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