Spirit Daily has picked up this story. Maybe there will be enough national outrage that they decide they need to pull it off the website.
Well, anybody tries to say that prayer around me, I will stand up, say, I refuse to pray a wiccan prayer and walk out, and complain loudly.
In my mispent youth, I did mess with wicca. I converted to Christ, and there's no way I am going to go back so that a few good CINOs can play with feel good stuff that they don't understand. Invoking the four directions? Invoking the earth?
This is not Christian, and if any sweet old sister says it is, ask her why wants to cast a magic circle instead of pray to God.
It's because praying to God is coming face-to-face with the Divine, and sometimes, that just doesn't make us feel good and raise our self-esteem. Wicca and all the new pagan "religions" are all about feeling good: there is no moral demension, everything is within our control, and we can do whatever we want because Mommy Earth still wuvs us.
The wiccan stuff is more dangerous, if you will, than they know. But sometimes I think that a few of them do indeed know what they are dealing with and openly embrace it, just keep that to themselves. Remember when Notre Dame hired some wiccan 'priestess' to be on staff and teach. I think she was actually a nun (in name only) and she may still be there, leading others astray.
We greet you, Great Spirit of the Earth. It was from you we came as from a Mother; you nourish us still and give us shelter.
Could this be any more pagan? Not thanking God for the earth, for it's shelter, but actually thanking the earth who is our mother. It's strange to see the older nuns take this up. The same nuns in full habit when I was a kid have now gone, many of them, wiccan and new age. Very sad.