The Commission of the Gypsies
When
I was in my late teens, I had attended a Velada /Fiesta Espiritual in
Dorchester Massachusetts, conducted by a well known and respected
Espiritista. (see my blog post titled LA VELADA DE LA MESA BLANCA)
During that fiesta espiritual an Espiritista brought down a Gypsi
spirit, by the name of Jethenya. In gypsi fashion, the spirit danced in
circles, stomping her feet to the music played by a radio cassette
player and greeted the people, all the while cleansing them with her
pańos and giving them messages from the spirits. Then she.came to me and
halted her dance abruptly and gazed into my eyes. I immediately averted
her profound gaze, that seemed to strip away the layers of my very
soul. Then she placed her hands on my shoulders, as a feeling of
electric spiritual currents went through my body, Jethenya noticed my
unease and began to comfort my growing unease and softly said to me.
"Olé,
hermano mio! Que Olé! Yo Vengo hacer Caridad, I have come to perform
Charity, You have the cuadro de los Gitanos, you have the frame of the
gypsies with you,Alavado sea el Señor! It is part of your ancestry, as I
see Gypsy blood flows through your veins. I will be by your side always
hermano mio, and in the coming years I will give you three pruebas as
the three nails that pierced our Lords flesh. These pruebas will test
your worthiness and faith."
For
many years afterwards I became obsessed with everything Gypsy, the
lore, legends, music and culture. Mainly the Spanish Gitanos, and
Flamenco music and dance of Andalucia and Sevilla Spain. I purchased
every Gipsy Kings, Carmen Amaiya, (Queen of the Gipsies) and Sabicas cd I
Could get my hands on.
Later
on that year a Spanish soap opera was televised titled, Yesenia, about a
Gypsi. Could this be a sign, I remember wondering. Soon afterwards my
first child was born, and I named her Yesenia after the Gypsi that came
to me during that Fiesta Espiritual. (I also in the years to come did
face the three pruebas, the last one to be the strongest and almost
completely destroying and breaking my faith. But with the Grace of God, I
passed them and came through.
Legends of the Gypsies
A
gypsi by the name of Renzo was approached by a Roman Centurion and
ordered to forge twelve large nails, three of them were to be sharper
then the others. This being Renzo's art and having no reason in
questioning the Roman Centurion, proceeded with his labor. As Renzo was
forging the twelve nails, outside his hut he overheard the Roman
Centurion laughing as he told a soldier that the nails were to be used
to fix Christ and the robbers to their crosses. One for each hand, one
to nail the feet to the cross and the fourth, the sharpest to be plunged
into the sides of the victims to cause them more torture.
Stricken with great remorse and guilt for being responsible for the commission of an
act
of great offense. Renzo handed his son the three sharpest nails, and
ordered him to run to a secluded area in the hills and bury the nails.
The son ran to the Mount of Olives and buried them deep into the earth.
When
the Centurion came to collect the 12 nails, Renzo begged mercy for he
only had time to forge nine nails of the twelve and did not have time to
forge the three sharpest nails.
Infuriated
the Centurion took the nails and did not pay Renzo. The Romans where
forced to make do with what they had in securing Christ and the other
two victims with the nine nails. With the forth one being absent this
would save the three victims of further torture and pain.
Renzo
knelt and prayed God for mercy, and sent his son to the Mount of
Calvary, there he was to kneel at the foot of the cross of Christ and
beg mercy. The son being an obedient son did as he was told. At the foot
of the cross, Renzo's son was the first to make the sign of the cross,
Jesus at this moment blessed him and his kinfolk, and excused them of
committing the sin of thievery and lies.
When
Jesus died, the rumours spread that it had been a gypsi who had forged
the nails, this created an angry mod. They went into the gypsi camp and
drove Renzo and his kinfolk out of their land.
Till
recently gypsies became known as the wondering race, doomed to be
unable to settle in a land until the three missing nails are found thus
finally ending their wandering existence.
There
are many variations of the legend from gypsi clan to clan. In one
version a Gypsi woman, hand-maiden of one of the Three Marys by the name
of Sara Kali, or Kalimah; stole a bag of nails from the Roman soldiers
in the hopes of lessening the pain of the victims. Thus becoming the
Patron Saint of the Gypsies. While in another tail it is a couple of
young gyspie children who steel one of the bags of nails.
Most
of my offerings to my gypsies are stolen flowers, or nails I find on a
road or railroad track, or constructor sight. I never go into a store
and steel flowers, I take them from public gardens, but always leaving a
derecho of coins as a sign of respect.
" FLORES PA TU ALTAR, ANQUE ME LAS TENGA QUE ROBAR!"
PRAYER OF THE THREE NAILS.
Me persigno con los tres clavos y me abrazo de la cruz, Cruz Santa, Cruz Digna, Cruz Divina.
Yo te alabo y te bendigo por el Señor que murió en ti. no dejes llegar cosas malas junto de mi.
Que la Cruz y la Corona vayan siempre delante de mi, y muevan los corazones que estén en contra de mi.
Cristo vive, Cristo reina, Cristo de todos mis enemigos me defienda.
El Padre me libre, el Hijo me guarde y el Espíritu Santo por nosotros hable.
Ave María Purísima, sin pecado concebida. Alabado sea el Santísimo Sacramento del Altar
I CROSS MYSELF WITH THREE NAILS AND EMBRACE THE CROSS.
+ HOLY CROSS
+ DIGNIFIED CROSS
+ DIVINE CROSS.
I PRAISE THE LORD WHO DIED FOR MY SINS. KEEP EVIL AND WICKEDNESS AWAY FROM MY PATH.
MAY THE HOLY CROSS AND SACRED CROWN BE BEFORE ME, AND PACIFY THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST ME.
CHRIST LIVES. CHRIST REIGNS.
CHRIST DEFEND ME FROM ALL HARM.
MAY THE FATHER LIBERATE ME.
MAY THE SON GUARD ME.
MAY THE HOLY SPIRIT ON MY BEHALF INTERCEDE.
HAIL MARY FULL OF GRACE. YOU WHO HAVE CONCEIVED WITHOUT ORIGINAL SIN.
PRAISE BE THE HOLY SACRAMENT.
AMEN.
SPELL OF THE THREE NAILS FOR PROTECTION.
ITEMS NEEDED
- Blue Candle
- Olive Oil
- 1 Loadstone
- Loadstone food
- Three Nails.
- A white cloth bag
- Blue string
- Incense charcoal
- Incense, sandalwood
- Three stick matches.
- Holy Water
On
your altar take the candle and oil the base with a drop of olive oil.
Light the candle with the 3 matches. Then with the lit candle light the
incense charcoal and place it on a safe base. Sprinkle the coal with the
incense. Let it smoke. Take the white bag and pass it carefully above
the fire of the candle and the smoke of the incense and then cross
yourself with it. Place the bag in front of you. Take the three nails
and add oil to each nail, and sprinkle with holy water, then place in
bag. Do the same with the loadstone and place in bag, then sprinkle into
the bag loadstone food. Then tie the bag shut with the blue string,
making three tight knots, And pass through the flame and smoke, and
anoint it with oil and holy water. Make the sign of the cross and carry
with you for protection or keep in your car for safe travel, or hung
behind the door to your home.
TRES CLAVOS DE LA CRUZ.
Los
tres clavos y la cruz vayan delante de Jesucristo. Respondan y hablen
por mi, y ablanden los corazones de los que sufren en contra mía. AMEN.
MAY
THE THREE NAILS OF CHRIST GO BEFORE ME, BEHIND ME, AND ALL AROUND ME.
MAY YOU PACIFY THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO WILL ME ILL. AMEN
THE ORIGINAL QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES.
Opacha!
Opacha! Mi Sagrada Santa. Señora Sara Kali. Madre y Reina de todas las
tribus gitanas de esta Tierra o de allá del túmulo. Madre de todos los
gitanos y protectora de los carruajes gitanos. Rezo evocando tu poder,
mi poderosa Sta. Sara Kali, para que ablandes mi corazón y saques las
angustias que se depositaran a mis pies. Santa Sara ayúdeme. Abra mis
caminos para la fe en tu poder milagrosos. Venciste el mal, todas las
tempestades y caminaste por las carreteras que Jesús Cristo camino.
Madre de los misterios gitanos que da fuerza a todos los gitanos en el
don de la magia, fortaléceme ahora, siendo yo gitano o no gitano,
bondadosa Santa Sara, ablande los leones que rugen para devorarme.
Santa
Sara, ahuyenta las almas perversas para que no me puedan ver. Ilumina
mi tristeza para la felicidad llegar, Reina. Atravesaste las aguas de
los ríos y del mar por encima de ellas y no hundiste yo evoco tu poder
para que yo no me hunda en el océano de la vida. Santa Sara, soy
pecador, triste, sufrido y amargado. Tráeme fuerza y coraje, como las
del Pueblo gitano tus protegidos, Madre, Señora y Reina de las fiestas
gitanas. Nada se puede hacer en una Tienda Gitana sin primero evocar tu
nombre, y yo evoco por mi pedido Santa Sara Kali. Tocan los violines,
caen las monedas, danzan las gitanas descalzas en vuelta de la hoguera,
viene el olor fuerte de los perfumes gitanos, las palmas batiendo,
lavando al Pueblo de Santa Sara Kali.
Que
el Pueblo gitano me traiga riquezas, paz, amor y victorias. Ahora y
siempre loare tu nombre Santa Sara Kali y todo el Pueblo gitano. Opacha,
opacha, Olé con Olé Madre Santa Sara Kali.
My
Sacred Saint our Lady Sara Kali. Mother and Queen of all the Gypsy
tribes of this earth. You who protect the caravans of your people. I
invvoke your sublime powers my powerful Santa Sara Kali, to soften my
heart and remove the anguish at my feet.
Santa
Sara help me. Open my road and clear the path. Conquer evil, and the
storms in my life, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Gypsy
Mother of the Mysteries that were bestowed on the Roma. Giver of music
and dance, You that aid in the sight, and the gifts of the mysteries of
magic,
Bestow upon me the strength to conquer the roaring lion that wishes to devour me.
Holy
Saint Sara Kali, DISPEL the evil souls that may surround me. Holy
Queen, may the waters of the rivers and the sea not drown me. I humbly
evoke your powers, may I not sink into the depths of the sea.
Bring
before me courage and strength, such as that of your people the Roma.
Perfume my life with rose oils, and give to me the love for the joy of
dance and music.
May
the Roma Gypsi spirits bless me with, wealth, peace, love and victory.
Now and forever I will praise your name, Hail Santa Sara Kali and all
the Roma people. Opocha, Opocha, OLÉ. HAIL BLESSED SAINT SARA KALI.
In
future blogs I will be blogging more on the major Courts and
commissions of Spirits venerated in Puerto Rican Sanse, Santerismo and
espiritismo, to read more on each commissions, read. The 21 Commissions
of Puerto Rican Espiritismo in this blog.
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