Asatru Folk Assembly - Twelve Days of Yule Day 7 December 2008

Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

65.46855

Word count

153

Sentence count

00:00:00.000 The seventh day of Yule, we light a candle and remember community.

00:00:17.360 The joy of Yule springs overwhelmingly from community.

00:00:22.340 We feast with our family and good friends, exchange gifts,

00:00:25.880 send cards, and make telephone calls to the important people in our lives.

00:00:31.560 While we are all unique individuals, we are nevertheless enmeshed in relationships with others.

00:00:38.220 These relationships all bear benefits, for example, love, someone to talk to, financial help,

00:00:44.680 as well as duties, such as reciprocation, upholding the family's honor, and physical protection.

00:00:51.400 Community also includes the ancestors, who look on from beyond the grave and nourish the

00:00:58.860 souls of their descendants.

00:01:15.960 Let us strengthen the bonds of community.

00:01:20.240 This day I will pour a libation to my kinfilgia, the personified repository of my family's

00:01:27.420 spiritual might, to honor the organic community of my living kin and my ancestors.

00:01:36.280 I will do something for my community this day.

00:01:50.240 Thank you.

Asatru Folk Assembly - February 02, 2021