Bishops
seek saint for Internet
Hopeless clickers urge Vatican to name protector
-- http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/31/internet.saint/
(CNN)
— Fed up with hackers, a flood of
spam and lousy connections, Italian Roman
Catholics have launched a search for a patron
saint of the Internet. And they hope their
online poll will yield a holy Web protector
by Easter.
Will it be Archangel Gabriel, whom the Bible
credits with bringing Mary the news that
she’d give birth to Jesus? Or Saint
Isadore of Seville, who wrote the world’s
first encyclopedia? Or perhaps Saint Clare
of Assisi, a nun believed to have seen visions
on a wall?
So far, about 5,000 visitors are casting
their votes daily on www.santiebeati.it,
something that delights Monsignor James
P. Moroney, an expert on prayer and worship
for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
"Everyone needs patrons in the Kingdom
of Heaven, and perhaps the Internet as a
very young child needs the interventions
of a saint all the more," he said.
One question though do
I still need a firewall and an a Antivirus
program? My friends who I told of this Cyberspace
voodoo ritual all too said it can't hurt.
And it's like putting a St. Christopher
statue on your dashboard is how they tend
to liken it too.
BROADBAND, DIALUP, WIRELESS
IT'S ALL VOODOO HOODOO
"There are people who want to
have a saint for everything. …People
come up with a cause and they will assign
someone to it."
-- Penelope Fletcher, Pope John Paul II
Cultural Center.
A Prayer to say aloud before Logging onto
the Internet
Prayer before logging on to the Internet
Almighty and eternal God, who hast created
us in Thy image and hast bidden us to seek
after all that is good, true and beautiful,especially
in the divine person of Thy only-begotten
Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech
Thee that, through the intercession of Saint
Isidore, bishop and doctor, during our journeys
through the internet we will direct our
hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing
to Thee and treat with charity and patience
all those souls whom we encounter. Through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Oratio ante colligationem in Interrete
factam
Omnípotens aetérne Deus,
qui nos secúndum imáginem
Tuam plasmásti, et omnia bona, vera,
pulchra, praesértim in divína
persóna Unigéniti Fílii
Tui Dómini nostri Iesu Chrísti,
quaérere iussísti, praesta
quaésumus ut, per intercessiónem
Sancti Isidóri, Epíscopi et
Doctóris, in peregrinatiónibus
per interrete factis et manus oculósque
ad quae Tibi sunt plácita intendámus
et omnes quos convénimus cum caritáte
ac patiéntia accipiámus. Per
Christum Dóminum nostrum. Amen.
HERE
HIS PRAYER TO SAY BEFORE LOGGING ON IN LATIN
http://diosef.org/isidore/oratio.ram
And in truth so do all the Voodisi in the
world. It's the faith and culture coming
together in the computer age. The Vatican’s
Observation Service for Internet, which
drew its mission from the Pontifical Council
for Social Communications, researched the
Internet and related technologies to select
a patron saint that best reflects the concerns
and ideals of computer designers, programmers
and users. The saint chosen by the Observation
Service was Saint Isidore.
http://diosef.org/isidore/
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COMPUTER VOODOO AND INTERNET
BLESSING RITUAL
The drums echoed, constant with a strange
chant for background noise for the BIZANGO.
The finely decorated altar with over 200
candles ablaze was covered with PAQUETS
CONGO, WANGA, Voodoo dolls and several live
huge snakes and a new Dell computer was
the base for a large statue of Saint Isidore
of Seville.
Tonight on North Miami Ave. Neighborhood
(the North east section of Miami is called
little Hatti known for strange spells and
often told tales of cock fighting) Haitian
Mambo Josephine Jean-Gilles and her SHANPWEL
begins her voodoo ritual with over 50 people
in attendance. And old black woman sits
in a lone rocking chair making a doll of
the Saint to use as an offering as his approach
draws near. And then startling the crowd
in a loud creole tone voice she begins to
call out to him and the CARREFOUR.
Here in the quiet and in the still darkness
I light candles near the front door of a
hounfour (a voodoo temple) I stood amazed
as 21st century technology met the ancestors
of age old voodoo spirits. The ritual is
to keep the DJAB at bay with her PWIN.
The place was divided into many rooms,
known as peristiles. From the main one (poteau-mitam),
the BAGI where entities - that is, loas,
or orishas, spirits that are the manifold
manifestations of God - would appear, a
thick smoke wafted out. People clad in white
sang a song in spanish and creole to Saint
Isidore. It had the same melody as an old
lullaby I would sing my young children to
sleep with.
On the walls hung images of saints, side
by side with cabalistic symbols known as
"vévé". The strong
smell of rum prevailed over the session.
All of a sudden, I realize the Houngan (priest)
was about to commence a sacrifice.
Two white and blue ribbons circled the
computer with the statue and candles on
top. On the monitor screen was a screen
saver with a veve blazing across it. On
this important day of the festival, The
Voodoo drummers and others were playing
their musical instruments that led the people
dancing around the pole to a perfect state
of grace trance... Many were characterizes
as their protector saints with clothes and
ancestral movements and gestures. People
in white clothes were dancing and making
sounds like a modem representing the spirit
of the computer. I asked if the computer
on the altar was connected to the internet
and the answer was yes.
Sitting before the computer Mambo Josephine
prayed aloud half in english half in creole.
I heard in her utterence the word spam and
spyware mixed in the creole words.
"Spirit here before me... With your
great holy powers bless the internet and
all that use it's serviesm" she said.
"Protect our children from the harm
of porn, and guide all those that seek it's
use to the web sites they most desire to
find." To you our lord watch over those
that build the we, refine it's use and codes."
May all the information that those who dare
to seek it find it without hesitation."
LEGBA is your lord master! SOBO is your
power! OGUM is your maker! GUEDE is your
soul! BARON SAMED is your keeper! AGWÉ
is your keeper!
She then spun around in the chair for what
seemed an eternity until she was the true
CHEVAL, possessed and CIANOSE by the spirit
of the Saint himself in trance.
In the now quite room the Saint came to
each of those in attendance and spoke words
of comfort. To me he said, "Tell my
story on the internet let the world know
what is truly blessed by me."
VOODOO LEXICON
AGWÉ - voodoo loa; the spirit of
the sea
BAGI - temple sanctuary, a secret room that
houses the spirits' altar
BARON SAMEDI - voodoo loa; the lord and
guardian of graveyards, represented by a
large cross planted on the tomb of the first
man buried there; an important bizango spirit.
BIZANGO - how secret societies are called;
also implies the rite carried by the shampwel;
its name derives from a Guinea Bissau tribe
CARREFOUR - crossroads; also a voodoo loa
associated with both the bizango and the
petro rites.
CHEVAL - horse; in voodoo jargon, the person
who receives a spirit
CIANOSE - blue skin tone caused by oxygen
deprivation
DJAB - Devil, evil force, baka
GRANS BWA - voodoo loa; the spirit of the
forest
GUEDE - voodoo loa; the spirit of the dead
LEGBA - voodoo loa; the spirit of communication
and of crossroads
LOUP GAROU - werewolf; the bizango roaming
queen is supposed to be a loup garou.
MACOUTE - Haitian peasants' wicker backpack
MAMBO - voodoo priestess
MANGÉ MOUN - "to eat people",
and euphemism for killing someone
OGUM - voodoo loa; the spirit of fire, war
and iron
PAQUETS CONGO - a small sacred package that
holds magic ingredients that protect against
disease and evil; the closest thing there
is to the notorious - and often misconstrued
- voodoo doll
PETRO - a group of voodoo loas that derives
from Congolese rites
PWIN - the magic force invoked to carry
out the wishes of a witch or of the bizango
society
REINE VOLTIGE - the roaming queen, known
to be a werewolf; the four reines voltiges
carry the sacred coffin during bizango processions.
SHANPWEL - a term used in reference to secret
societies; misused as a synonym for bizango,
but more properly applied to the bizango's
members.
SOBO - voodoo loa; the spirit of thunder
TETRADOXIN - a neurotoxin found in blowfish
and other animals, whose effect is to block
nerve signals by stopping the transportation
of sodium ions at cells
TONTON MACOUTE - literally, "uncle
backpack"; the name given to the members
of Papa Doc's personal guard
VÉVÉ - symbols drawn in flour
or cinders, whose purpose is to invoke the
loas; each spirit has its own vévé
VOODOO - theological principles and practices
of traditional Haitian society
WANGA - an amulet used against selfish or
evil purposes
ZOMBI ASTRAL - an aspect of the soul that
can be transmogrified at the discretion
of its possessor
ZOMBI CADAVRE - a flesh zombie, which can
be made to work
ZOMBI SAVANE - a former zombie, someone
who has gone to ground, became a zombie
and later returned to life.
Source: A Serpente e o Arco-Íris,
by Wade Davis (editora Jorge Zahar, 1980)
The Vatican has declared that St. Isidore
of Seville is the patron saint of the Internet,
And so have the many practicing voodoosants
and those that search the internet and now
his image — in the form of a stained-glass
window — casts its colors in Boston
College’s new data center. Small wonder
that the Voodoo people of Miami saw fit
to recognize him as the Internet’s
patron also and include him in thier pantheon
of Loa's.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainti04.htm
DOES
SAINT ISIDORE PROTECT YOU FROM VIRUSES?
SPAM? SPYWARE AND THE EVILS HIDDEN ON THE
WORLD WIDE WEB? IS YOUR LAPTOP OR HOME OR
OFFICE PC SAFE, WHO KNOWS BUT ISN'T IT WORTH
A SHOT?
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