Wild Church: All Hallows Eve

Solstice details and some words from "Holidays and Holy Nights"

Wild Church: All Hallows’ Eve - Thursday, October 31st, 5pm

Join the local Wild Church gathering for fire and song, ritual and community. Followed by a shared potluck meal. Please bring your own dishware. A free will offering will be taken to support the Honor Native Land Fund.

Location: Little Platte Catholic Worker Farm: 1860 Stumptown Road, Platteville, WI 53818

Mark your calendars: Wild Church: Winter Solstice - Friday, December 20th, Sinsinawa Mound

And from Christopher Hill’s Holidays and Holy Nights: Celebrating Twelve Seasonal Festivals of the Christian Year, my favorite book on the connection between the seasonal and liturgical calendars:

In traditional cultures, the important turning points of the year - solstices and equinoxes, or the changes of the pastoral seasons when the herd or flock was let out into summer pasture or brought down for the winter - were understood to stand outside of time. In the more sensuous awareness of time that people had in the absence of precise measuring systems, it was apparent that at these moments, one “time” had ended. Time would start again with the new season, but between the end of one cycle and the beginning of the next was a gap…This human sense of time is so deep and apparently universal that it has found its way into almost every religious tradition. It is the root of most holy days and the source of sacred time. Of course, the timeless can break through at any moment of life. Holy days are simply celebrations and sacraments of that fact.