Manchester Cathedral is to host a ‘new age’ festival featuring tarot card readers, crystal healers and ‘dream interpretation’.
Local Anglican leaders have agreed to throw open the doors of the historic cathedral in a bid to embrace alternative forms of Christianity.
Fortune tellers, meditation experts and traditional healers will fill the pews during the day-long festival in May. The Bishop of Manchester, Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, said he wanted to celebrate ‘all forms of spirituality’.
The Spirit of Life festival on May 2 will also feature stalls and workshops on angels, prayer bead-making and massage.
Fire-breathing vicar Rev Andy Salmon, of Sacred Trinity Church and St Philip with St Stephen in Salford, will also perform.
Bishop Nigel said the unconventional activities were not incompatible with Christian belief.
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I read the comment of an Anglo-Catholic priest who saw this development as anothe reason to join the Anglican Ordinariate. He obviously has not been to New Orleans where Jackson Square in front of St. Louis Cathedral (Roman Catholic) is filled with fortune tellers or to Mexixo where the fortune tellers do business inside the Roman Catholic cathedrals as well as on the plazas outside them and the Roman Catholic Church turns a blind eye to them.
HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENYING THE POWER THEROF:
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If the news article is correct, it appears that the Bishop Of Manchester wants to welcome a spirit of divination through tarot reading and obviously doesn't see a problem mixing christianity with the occult?
WHAT FELLOWSHIP CAN LIGHT HAVE WITH DARKNESS?
Has the Rt Rev Mc Culloch forgotten that The Apostle Paul cast OUT a spirit of divination from the fortune teller rather than invoking one?
HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS BUT RATHER EXPOSE THEM.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Richard,
ReplyDeleteI do not disagree with you. Grace Cathedral out on the West Coast comes to mind. Its bishop and its dean opened its doors to the occult. The point that I was seeking to make with my comment was that occultism has gained a foothold in the Roman Catholic Church too. This is particularly evident in Mexico, Central America, and South America. A number of Roman Catholics here in the States attend Mass and practice Wicca. They read their daily horoscope and they consult fortune tellers. If the priest in question is seeking to flee occult influence in the Church of England by joining the Anglican Ordinariate, he will not find a refuge from it in the Roman Catholic Church. It has preceded him.
New Age Festival - its great.
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Nick from Tarot Reading
Have you ever considered how reading the tarot card works? What causes a tarot card reader to draw a particular card from the deck and to lay it down in a particular sequence? I read tarot cards, participated in seances, and dabbled in other occult practices in university. Later in life I would renounce and repudiate these practices after giving serious thought to what were the spiritual influences operative behind them. For me it came down to a choice. To whom would I turn to for guidance in my life--to God, to the Holy Spirit, or to other spiritual entities, which I conclude did not have my ultimate spiritual well-being at heart. It is a choice that faces all of us whether or not we realize it. We cannot be neutral in the matter. We can choose to live in harmony with God or not to do so.
ReplyDeleteMore divagatory, clueless, quite arrogant and self-congratulatory (sound familiar?)Western, and Episcopal loons. The Episcopal loons are narcissistically self-serving and self-congratulating.. Not far off from the Americans with their liquid, ill-defined, undefined, amorphous, shallow, and "very American" confessions.
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