Writings by Dan O'Rourke
A Visit to Lily Dale
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iA Visit to Lily Dalei
by Daniel OiRourke
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This is a lecture given in the Lily Dale Auditorium on July 19, 2008 by Daniel OiRourke, a certified healer at the Lily Daleis Healing Temple.
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Iid like to start with a few questions. Why did you come to Lily Dale? To this spiritual place? Why are you here this afternoon? What brought you here on this hot, humid day in July? I suspect there are many, complicated answers to these questions, but it may help to think about the events and motives, which led us to this auditorium on this particular afternoon. .:: Continue Reading ::.
A Wedding Sermon
The Canadian novelist Robertson Davies has this dialogue between a bachelor Anglican priest and a woman faculty member in his novel, “The Lyre of Orpheus.”
iWhat do you think marriage is?” She asked,* “Just babies and eating off the same fork?i
iGod forbid!” the priest paused,” .:: Continue Reading ::.
A War Dead Prayer
January 28, 2007 Trinity Episcopal Fredonia, NYFor the war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, we pray to the Lord.
For the war dead in Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, we pray…
For the American and coalition military killed in combat, we pray …
For the innocent civilians killed in these wars, we pray … .:: Continue Reading ::.
Talk at the Suicide Prevention Walk
October 4, 2008, SUNY FredoniaWelcome to Fredonia’s 5th Annual American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Walk.
These walks here and around the country are rightly called “Out of the Darkness Community Walks.” Their main purpose is not to raise money, although they do that.* Their main purpose is to raise awareness. Of itself money is not going to dispel the darkness, but raising awareness does. .:: Continue Reading ::.
Fiftieth Reunion Invocation
June 1999, Pocono Manor, PennsylvaniaSaint Maryis High School, Class of 1949
O God, Father and Mother of us all, Ground of Being and Source of Life, we the spouses and graduates of the Class of e49 come before You, fifty years later, asking Your blessings on our varied lives, our scattered families and on this reunion. .:: Continue Reading ::.
