I started my awakening in 2009, shortly after my cousin, whom I was very close to, died by suicide. I overheard the priest at his mother's church telling his mother that my cousin was unworthy of a Catholic funeral (due to the way in which he ended his life) and he would be relegated to the church chapel for the...[ read more ]
According to Wikipedia, a rite of passage is defined as, "a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another." As a society, we experience a variety of more formal rites of passage such as a Baptism, First Communion, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, The Women's Rite (Munay Ki), and funerals to name just a...[ read more ]
