Re: River Lantern Festival added to a.s.c. (6)

On Aug 19, 2024, David Dalton wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> At the end of the CTV news (not the CTV National News but
> the CTV News Overnight half hour edition that starts on
> the half hour in most time zones and on the hour here in
> Newfoundland) tonight they showed a traditional Chinese
> river lantern festival. (CTV is a Canadian TV network.)
>
> From google:
>
> Lantern Festival, holiday celebrated in China and other Asian countries that
> honours deceased ancestors on the 15th day of the first month (Yuan) of the
> lunar calendar. The Lantern Festival aims to promote reconciliation, peace,
> and forgiveness.
>
> However it must be that it is celebrated on the 15th of this lunar
> month in some part of China, not just in the first lunar month of
> the Chinese year.
>
> Anyway, by viewing it I considered that I was participating in the
> ritual, and added it to a.s.c. (6), which will be applied to all
> 1.55 million human assisted shaktipat recipients globally.
> But unlike the four Catholic sacraments which I included,
> the river lantern festival ritual did not need to be funnelled;
> it was entirely positive.

Here is a report on the river lantern and song festival,
on the Zijiang River:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co2hBE1SlzU

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