#tradcatholic

Hello!

It has been a very long time. I hope you all are doing well!

I just want to check in! I am well, just a bit tired 😅 I am here to ask for your prayers. This next month will just be a lot. I am graduating next week and I have to prepare for my finals. 

Also, we are getting married in just 36 days! Please pray for our final preparations and for our future marriage. You are in our prayers as well!

Be sure to check out my Linktree for updates. I am on a general social media hiatus now just because of finals and moving prep, but I am usually the most active on Instagram, Twitter, and Wordpress. I plan on returning to YouTube this summer as well.

Thank you! God bless you!

Ad Jesum per Mariam,

i grew up under the Catholic tradition, baptized, attended church and catechism, Mother Mary has protected me since i was very little, i grew up across the street from a church with an outdoor altar shrine i would visit every day when my stepfather was hurting me, Christ inspired me to be a survivor

my Catholic heritage is matrilineal, all the way back to my great great grandmother who immigrated from Ireland to practice her midwifery on the prairie, her daughter married a Protestant Freemason and so did her granddaughter in turn

my foremothers identified as cunning women, herbalists, mediums, tealeaf-readers, angel-workers, ceremonial priestesses, and yes, witches

i know hereditaries are controversial and lots of witches who identify as such are notorious for dubious claims and chicanery for profit and attention

i didn't ask for this, i bear the literal scars of this heritage, not all witches are good and once my maternal line came in contact with wealthy American Freemasons ritualized abuse entered the equation of my family tree and my being

several family members have confirmed our family's "crypto-faith" to me

yes, it is the "Old Way" to not be open about it around outsiders

even Wiccans say these days Gerald Gardner was lying about encountering an undergound coven to base his new religion on, but given my own life experience, it's very probable he wasn't (though of course i can't say for certain)

"We are the daughters of the Witches you couldn't burn"

"OK, Karen"

i am not saying every hereditary must be believed without question, but though we are probably a statistical and obscure minority, we do, in fact, exist

i understand the divides in our society, i understand the justified rage with witches of European descent ("white witches" wouldn't be accurate here, obviously)

racial white supremacy is real and, by my observation, without doubt an Antichristian agenda by a capitalist cult of Mammon (greed)

i am also descended from some very evil white men and women in America, very participants of that capitalist system, who inflicted suffering on others and justified it with racism, i bear that sin and devote my life to repairing that rift

i just want to pledge my loyalty to freeing ourselves, sisters, siblings, & brothers of all color, heritage, and creed, from the machinations of the human evil gripping this plane

the same battle we have always fought in the night, often in our dreams against demons in the skies of our minds, even in the noose, by the sword and axe and hammer, under stones and water, and yes, on the stake

i am white and i am also a white witch of the Catholic tradition, i am a hereditary of the Irish motherland

believe it or not, witches of medieval and early modern Europe very commonly did not see themselves as "heretics" at all, they attended Mass and prayed to the Queen of Heaven and beseeched the angels and saints, the Bible tells us God put signs in the stars and so astrology was accepted theology, the Seer of Endor advised the kings of the Israelites, the Hellenic oracles foretold and praised the coming of Christ

there was no scriptual discrepancy or cognitive dissonance in their minds, in their hearts, in their hands

i am not "cringe" or "crazy" this is the faith i was raised in and it's framework fits completely within the historical context i descend from

Catholic witches differ from mainstream Christians in that we were encouraged by our families to maintain the philosophic tradition of the ancients, to maintain skepticism without falling into cynicism, always question authority, commune with nature and its beatific resonance, practice science and art, which obviously skirts into heresy if too openly exposed to those of blind faith and dogmatism, those who enforce the material hierarchy

we have this in common with the witches of civilizations across time and place, freethinking healers, scholars, and ecstatics whose practices are so bright and holy they outshine the insititutions of princes, powers, and colonizers

i do not desire to erase Christ's earthly work by treating him as an abstract deity, he was a living man who healed and preached against injustice and imperialism

in my eyes and Rome's, he was a witch and he was executed for it

i would rather be Christ-like than anybody's perfect, pure, and penitent Christian

And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: And being with child, she cried travailing in birth, and was in pain to be delivered. And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns: and on his heads seven diadems: And his tail drew the third part of…