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Embodied
Cross-posted from pilgrimsteps.com In one of the more important Mormon temple rituals, your body is washed with water and anointed with oil. This washing and anointing is mostly symbolic–water and oil are only touched to a few points on your … Continue reading
Three Funeral Speeches and a Eucharist: My Experience Actively Participating in Religious Ritual for the Deceased
by Kelly Ann I have spoken at three funerals. The first time was in 2002 for someone I didn’t know. Fresh off my mission, I gave the plan of salvation speech for an inactive member of my homeward who wanted … Continue reading
Laying on of Hands
by G The first time that I went through the temple, I knew that I would come back and become a worker there. I knew this the moment that a woman parted a white veil to usher me into a … Continue reading
Posted in Belief, Gender roles, Mormon women, authority, female divine, temple
Tagged Gender roles, priesthood, ritual, spirituality, temple, women
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body and blood and tears in church
by G When I stopped attending the LDS church last year I started visiting other local worship services and I found myself in the embarrassing situation of weeping in public. (Two Sundays in a row!) It started at the Episcopalian … Continue reading
Posted in Belief, Doubt, spirituality, temple
Tagged bread and water, ceremony, communion, community, Doubt, eucharist, grief, loss, morning, ritual, sacrament, sadness, spirituality, tears, temple
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