Get the Saints Off That Pedestal
The Saints are both a little more complicated, and simple than you have been led to believe.
When people speak of the saints, it reminds me of that cabinet full of ornaments at your Grandma’s house that no one is allowed to touch. Or the wedding china that sits there looking all pretty in that custom made cupboard begging to be used, but is always kept for that special occasion that never comes.
Work. With. The. Saints.
With my Clients I find a lot of beliefs around the Saints is ‘but why would they help me?’ ‘I am not good enough for them to even look upon.’ Only the Priests are good enough.
And the concern that if they do not here a booming voice clear as tell announcing the arrival of Saint so-and -so, that their beliefs of worthlessness were right.
Saints don’t want to be worshipped, they want to be worked.
The Saints are Vast
The Saints are just humans.
They are people that died, who due to the energy sent to them in death by us, have a little more juju to walk between worlds and help out.
These are people who have been tortured, fought the enemy, aided the poor and stood for what they believed in. They do not want to be a simple ornament on your mantle, they are people of action.
Treat them as an Ancestor, treat them as a friend whom you would like to get to know.
There are some Saints/Ancestors who died after gaining some spiritual knowledge in life. Christian mystics, pagans who were also priests and the prophetesses, are all walking with people on a path imparting their wisdom, helping them learn how to fight and showing them what they have to offer.
Because the Saints ARE our Ancestors it gives them access to the various magickal and religious traditions across the globe, so understand that there are many ‘pagan’ systems that have accepted various Saints into the fold simply because they kept showing up.
The saints are not a stand alone group that belong to the church, they run through everything and are not only to be found in Christianity at all.
That is simply who decided to use their story for their institutional and political needs.
Folk Saints
Folk Saints are some of my favourite spirits, because it is the community themselves who recognised that these people were helping them after death. Whether they came to them in a dream with good news during sickness, showed up on a hospital ward or delivered money that they desperately needed.
Thanks is given, candles are bought, love is freely given and a connection created.
This occurring over and over turns this person into an elevated Ancestor (or a saint).
One of the things I love about folk saints versus canonised saints is that there has been no attempt to sanctify or sanitise the image of a folk saint. If anything it is the opposite - they reflect their community, they ARE one of them which is why they are so successful, and spread like wildfire.
They are far more likely to be approached as it’s just like going to see your Uncle John who liked his beer a little too much.
It’s just such a shame that we don’t see all saints this way.
So whether it is Jesus Malverde, Rosa De Lima or Ursula approach them as a human, not a religious figure.
Their Plea
Canonised saints have been sat on that mantle of ours for a long time now, only being prayed to within certain confines, never being given the tools that will help them to make a difference. Help us to make a difference.
Please take them off of the mantle.
If you keep thinking of a saint in particular, you have a dream with one or you hear the same name three times in a day, understand that is them reaching out. They will come to you as much as you go to them.
Take them off the mantle and onto your desk so you can get to work building your relationship, changing your life and making a difference in this world.
~ Malika
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