1. CONT’D FROM PAGE 7
This biblical quote is meant to be re-
peated by future generations as a sign of
humility.
Jesus usually chose for his followers
the outcasts and sinners, not the nobil-
ity. His apostles were fisherman from
Galilee and their heavy accents were not
considered high class in the royal city of
Jerusalem. Paul the apostle said “In
Christ there is no Jew nor Gentile, slave
or free, male or female, but all are one”.
I am proud of my family name but
what really matters is not our ancestry,
our class, or our heritage. What matters
is who we choose to be and how we live
our life. A wandering Aramean was my
father. Thanks be to God.
4
)Every family should have their res-
ident historian, one who keeps the
past alive for the next generation. I
had a favourite aunt whose walls were
decorated with old photographs and da-
guerreotypes, framed medallions, a ter-
ritorial land grant signed by Abraham
Lincoln, the portrait of an early state sen-
ator. She led excursions to a town
named for a distant relative, passed
down legends of immigrants and early
settlers, romances of who married
whom, who died early of disease, for-
tunes that rose and fell to the rhythms
of world history. Each visit to Aunt Mar-
garet's, we'd sip tea from great-grand-
mother's bone china cups and dust off
old memories over dinner. New pieces of
the ancestor puzzle would slip one by
one into place.
Later in a Women's Studies course,
recognizing the lack of cultural initia-
tion rites, a group of us mothers de-
signed a ritual to honour matrilineal
ancestors with our daughters. We found
old letters, interviewed relatives,
searched family records for those ob-
scured or forgotten through death, adop-
tion, marriage or divorce. We learned of
the revered and the rarely mentioned,
how parents and their parents met, dis-
covered detours or near misses, sturdy
and dangling branches on the family
tree. We gathered in a circle around a
bonfire and took turns naming our fe-
male ancestry as far back as each could
go, marveling at the randomness of how
we came to be, and how much was still
a mystery. We encouraged our sons and
their fathers to do the same.
My spiritual community holds
an annual Ancestors ritual around All
Souls Day. Lest we forget who we are in a
culture that celebrates swift innovative
change, where tomorrow's news is al-
ready ancient history, we need our ritu-
als and bards of belonging to help us
revere the miraculous chain of being
that has brought us here.
One word, four voices - now add your
own: How do you celebrate your ances-
try?
Rev. Mead Baldwin pastors the Hatley,
Waterville & North Hatley United Churches;
Rev. Canon W. Lynn Dillabough co-ordinates
the Anglican Deanery of Saint Francis; Rev.
Lee Ann Hogle ministers to the Ayer’s Cliff,
Magog & Georgeville United Churches; Rev.
Carole Martignacco pastors UUEstrie – the
Unitarian Universalists in North Hatley.
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