"Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?"
-- St. Gerard Majella
Why not have slave festivals now? Okay we are not technically enslaved any longer, but was that all the slave festivals were about? I can't rightly say... but what I feel was, it was the desire to come together, celebrate, commune with others who shared similar traditions, sing, dance, taking the advantage to have some semblance of fun in the horror of their circumstance. I would greatly enjoy attending one of these now. And the reasons to have one has not greatly changed. As matter of fact, it seems to me we need one now more than ever... with community disappearing, traditions vanishing.
What would it take to put one of these on?
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye Heavenly Host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen."
"As one who a mother comforts, so will I comfort you... then shall ye suck. ye shall be borne upon her sides and be dandled upon her knees." Isaiah 66: 13a,12b
"Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither..." Proverbs 9:4a
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