Posted on 02/23/2006 7:29:02 AM PST by NYer
What do you do for an encore after you've been "ordained" priestess of the Roman Catholic Church?
Former Ohio first lady, ex-wife of former Governor Richard Celeste, Dagmar Braun Celeste was "ordained" in the Catholic Church by Romulo Antonio Braschi, founder of a schismatic community, on a boat in the Danube River between Austria and Germany on June 29, 2002. She was declared excommunicated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on July 22, 2002, which left her a priestess without a church.
Celeste will be conducting her Roman Catholic mass ritual this coming Sunday at the WinterStar Festival 23, "Sects & Sex", a gathering of Ohio Pagans at Atwood Lake Resort in Dellroy, Ohio, U.S.A.
WinterStar is sponsored by the Chameleon Club/Association of Consciousness Exploration, and by Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship.
Also on the program will be LaSara Firefox, second generation Pagan clergy ordained by the Church of All Worlds; Donald Michael Kraig, author of Modern Sex Magick: Secrets of Erotic Spirituality; Rev. Ivan Stang of the Church of the SubGenius; Garan Du, scholar of queer and transgendered spiritual history; Ea, co-founder of a thelemic magical order for gay and bi men; Phil Farber who will offer a turn-on to group mind, gods, demons and imaginary friends; Suzette Henderson, feminist activist; Joseph Rothenberg, offering a mediated initiatory experience disguised as a video game using biofeedback; Sheri Winston, healer, counselor, educator and teacher of wholistic sexuality; Niagra Voodoo offering tribal traditions and Santeria; and Snakes Rising, sharing the ecstacy of devotion by evoking hot, sultry nights with their dance rhythms and chanting.
Celeste's mass is a repeat performance. She was on the WinterStar program in 2005 as well.
Well, there are worse things
a pastor might ask Christians
to do for worship . . .
Female...Priest(ess)...an impossibility, regardless of who performed the abominable ceremony.
Yup, being married to former governor Dick Molest would mess your mind.
Stang's probably the least offensive to Catholic faith and morals of all of them. And the only one who isn't taken in by all this pseudo-religious bafflegab.
You try telling that to them :-)
Rev. Mary Ramerman
Sounds like it should be a Monty Python skit!
I always said I wanted to be an excommunicated Roman Catholic pagan priestess, but they all laughed. Now there's hope!
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