Spirit(ed) Away

In Japanese folklore, spiriting away refers to the mysterious disappearance, or death, of a person, after they angered the spirits, or kami. In Japanese, Kamikakushi. There are legends of people being abducted to the spirit world by the kami.

In Philippine folklore, spiriting away means the disappearance of a person toward the land of Engkantos (enchanted beings). An example is Biringan, a magical city rumored to be in Samar. Engkantos are mythical environmental spirits that are said to have the ability to show up/appear in human form. They’re often associated with the spirits of ancestors & spirits of the dead, called anito.

Enoch, in the Bible, is written as being “…no more, for God took him.” (Check out Genesis 5:21-24.) Elijah disappears when a chariot of fire appears & he’s taken up to Heaven in a whirlwind. Philip the Evangelist is taken away after witnessing to the Ethiopian Church (Check out Acts 8.).

In a very popular anime film, called Spirited Away, the main character, Chihiro, is “spirited away” from reality to the spirit world after her parents angered a witch, Yubaba, by eating their food greedily. Chihiro meets friendly, & aggressive, spirits as she tries to return before forgetting her name while there.

In a semi-popular video game series called Fatal Frame, many of the characters get spirited away by ghosts often leading them into a spirit world where they use a Camera Obscura, which is an antique camera-like device that, in the game, captures images of spirits to either find a way out or save someone who’s been spirited away.

In the 1820 short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the main character, Ichabod Crane, vanishes after being chased by the Headless Horseman. Ichabod is rumored to have been spirited away by the Horseman.

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St. Edith Stein Novena 2025, Day 1: Into the desert

SCRIPTURE READING
1 Kings 17:1-7

At the wadi Cherith

Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead said to Ahab, “As Yahweh lives, the God of Israel whom I serve, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years except at my order.”

The word of Yahweh came to him, “Go away from here, go eastward, and hide yourself in the Wadi Cherith which lies east of Jordan. You can drink from the stream, and I have ordered the ravens to bring you food there.” He did as Yahweh had said; he went and stayed in the Wadi Cherith which lies east of Jordan. The ravens brought him bread in the morning and meat in the evening, and he quenched his thirst at the stream.

MEDITATION
The Science of the Cross, Chapter 1

Go forth into the desert

In Carmel—under the mitigated Rule as well—the remembrance of the Prophet Elijah, the “Leader and Father of Carmelites” lived on. The Institutio Primorum Monachorum set the prophet before the eyes of the young religious as a model of the contemplative life. This prophet whom God commanded to go forth into the desert, to conceal himself by the brook Carith across from the Jordan, to drink the water of the brook and to be nourished by the food which God would send him, is to be the model of all who withdraw into solitude renouncing sin and all sensory pleasures, indeed all earthly things.

PRAYER

Saint Edith Stein,
faith in the holy angels gives me confidence—
confidence to believe, in the midst of all suffering,
in the divine life-force we all share,
which flows through all creation
as the sap flows from the vine into its branches.

We do not stand alone
in this fierce struggle between life and death.
“When my enemies press in on me…” (Ps 56:2),
“…then God fights for me.” (Josh 23:10)

In this valley of tears,
I lift my eyes in trust to you,
you holy angels and saints:
your task is to pass on that Love
whose “beginning and end is the triune God.”
(Edith Stein, Complete Works)

We are held and drawn into this radiant stream
of light and love, of life and truth.
The more we are united with you
through surrender to the divine will,
the more your love becomes our love,
your light our light.

If we believe in this communion,
we already walk in the light.

Intercede for us,
that we may take part in the restoration of all creation.

Here mention your intentions

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be

℣. Saint Edith Stein,
℟. Pray for us.

Stein, E 2002, The Science of the Cross, The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Book 6, translated from the German by Koeppel, J, ICS Publications, Washington D.C.

All scripture references are from The Jerusalem Bible Reader’s Edition, copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday & Company, Inc. as accessed from The Internet Archive website.

Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Joseph.

Let us unite in prayer

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Today's pick: Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath (c. 1630) - Bartholomeus Breenbergh. #art #Breenbergh #Elijah

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