SAGRADA Sacred Arts

Time to create your ofrenda! "Día de Los Muertos" is Nov 1 & 2 ushering in a month of remembrance of our own ancestors, and also this year all those who have died in the pandemic. "We invite our dead to join us at least once a year. We put food out for them, their favorite dishes and drink, especially baked bread, tequila or mezcal, and yellow marigolds to make them glad. And lights, candles in the Trees of Life which have also adorned the wedding altars, for life and death a...re a continuum in the adventure of being human... ...Así es la vida." - Rafael Jesús González, With gratitude to Rafael for permission to print this excerpt from "Días de los Muertos, Days of the Dead" Shop Los Muertos offerings: https://www.sagrada.com/dia-de-los-muertosday-of-the-dead-1 Shop SALE papel picado online: https://www.sagrada.com/dia-de-los-/papel-picado-plastico-2 Shop candles & incense: https://www.sagrada.com/candles-incense-oils Contact us for an appointment to shop inside: [email protected] We are grateful for your support these days. Let's stick together! May love and justice be at the center of all our actions. PRAY, ACT, VOTE! www.sagrada.com

Thich Nhat Hanh, for this moment We are in our eighth month of the pandemic and our experience of time seems fractured. It is hard to plan without a discernible horizon for our goals and how the future will unfold. Meanwhile, we are wistful for even the most simple experiences of the past. We feel adrift between then, and when....Continue reading

PLEASE NOTE There are several options for shopping at Sagradaduring pandemic. Thank you for your support! SHOP ONLINE www.sagrada.com We can ship to you, or arrange for curbside pickup. MAKE AN APPOINTMENT... A personal appointment to shop inside. Come in safely with mask (we have sanitizer and gloves). We schedule only a couple of customers at a time. You must have an appointment to come in, as our hours change a lot these days. Email [email protected] to schedule this. We are united with people everywhere in prayer & action for healing and restoration.We join with all beings in holding what is sacred. Thank you for sharing about us on your Facebook page and Instagram.We look forward to seeing you again!

S A G R A D A Children's Book Sale with proceeds going to Destiny Arts Center Destiny Arts Center of Oakland is a leading creative youth development organization that equally values mastery of movement arts,... inclusive communities, and cultivating advocates for peace. 4-day sale on selected children's titles Tuesday Oct 13 - Saturday Oct 17, 2020 Sale ends October 17, 2020 Hop to it! Children's book SALE: https://www.sagrada.com/sale-childrens-books Choose curbside pickup or we can ship to you Or, email to make a safe in-store appointment: [email protected] Shop SAGRADA www.sagrada.com online to see more children's books and many other treasures May love and justice be at the center of all our actions. VOTE! Photo: Dancers from the Destiny Junior Company (previous year). Photo by Catrina Marchetti

We offer this memo in heartfelt solidarity with our sisters of color this week of October, in recognition of the joy, resilience, creativity, and power of Black & Brown women in our communities. May you be held safe, may you have rest, may you receive... kindness, may you always be seen for how beautiful you are. A gift of song by our Oakland vocal activist Melanie DeMore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIsZuoNFtXg Shop SAGRADA online www.sagrada.com Make a safe in-store appointment Read. Resist. Sustain Hope. Vote! Illustration by @sacree_frangine

Hi friends! We're opening the door a bit. We're happy to be able to welcome our customers back into the shop, little by little. (That's our friend Toti in the photo, our first visitor!)... You'll need to make appointment as we are following COVID protocols. Just a couple of people at a time. You must have an appointment to come in as our hours are changing often these days. Make an appointment by email: [email protected] And ordering is easy on our website! www.sagrada.com Curbside pickup available for local shoppers. And if you would like to purchase something you don't see, let us know what you're looking for and we'll get back to you. Deep bows of gratitude for your support. It's been a time. We continue to pray that there will be healing, solace, awakening, compassion, clear vision, hope, endurance, peace. May love and justice be at the center of all our actions. And get organized to VOTE! www.sagrada.com

Blessing of the Blue Corn Blue Corn is sacred to the indigenous peoples of this land. In ceremonies and offerings to our Mother Earth, cornmeal is given back with prayers similar to this:... In beauty I walk With beauty before me With beauty behind me With beauty above me with beauty below me In beauty it is finished. Beth has been a beekeeper and organic farmer in New Mexico for over 30 years on Piro Pueblo ancestral land. She loves planting, growing food, sharing, saving seeds, and making candles. She makes this pure beeswax "blue corn" candle to honor the sacred traditions of her neighbors. With your purchase of a blue corn candle in August, a donation will be made to Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland SHOWN: beeswax blue corn candle ; blue corn scrub soap PHOTOS: Every year, a pair of mallard ducks returns to this very same spot in the irrigation ditch on Beth's farm to hatch their ducklings. Beth has seen the same pair for over 30 years. Nature giving us signs of hope. Full moon rising over Sparrow Hawk Farm, New Mexico Visit our SAGRADA website. www.sagrada.com Email us for an in-store appointment: [email protected]

A Visitation Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life. * The smile of a baby, a close whoosh of a bird's wing, a deeply sublime passage of music, a pebble in an unlikely place. Perhaps these are visitations. Visitations have power. They can break open the heart, shift a long-held belief, carry us in a new direction. A magical touch, a brush with the energy of another world. Remember? * * *...Continue reading

Invite a bit of serenity for yourself and for the community. Books, crystals, sage, candles, a meditation bell, a treasure for your altar. A gift for a friend.... Ordering is easy on our website! Curbside pickup available for local shoppers. From time to time, depending on state closure orders, we can make arrangements for in-store visits. You must have an appointment to come inside the shop. Covid-19 protocols in place. Please contact us before coming over: [email protected] Invite a bit of serenity for yourself and for the community. Books, crystals, sage, candles, a meditation bell, a treasure for your altar. A gift for a friend. Ordering is easy on our website! Curbside pickup available for local shoppers. From time to time, depending on state closure orders, we can make arrangements for in-store visits. You must have an appointment to come inside the shop. Covid-19 protocols in place. Please contact us before coming over: [email protected] S A G R A D A books & sacred arts 4926 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94609 510.653.7196 www.sagrada.com

WE'RE HERE! Thank you for your love and support during these long weeks and months. We are shipping orders or if you are local, schedule a curbside pickup. www.sagrada.com Heartfelt gratitude going out to these Bay Area artists for this powerful artwork adorning the Sagrada portal: Rachel Anne Palacios... Emily Winslow-Cabrera Lilli Lanier See more

Rev. Dr. William J Barber delivered this sermon today, May 31, 2020. It is a message from the heart to the heart, and so we pass it along you. If you have time to listen, please do. The video is about an hour long. "A Pastoral Letter to the Nation" https://tinyurl.com/ycluuy6s... (an excerpt): "If we take time to listen to this nation’s wounds, they tell us where to look for hope. The hope is in the mourning and the screams, which make us want to rush from this place. There is a sense in which, right now, we must refuse to be comforted too quickly. Only if these screams and tears and protests shake the very conscience of this nationand until there is real political and judicial repentancecan we hope for a better society on the other side of this."

Photography:Andre D Wagner @2014 Design:Aaron Yeboah Postcards: Syracuse Cultural Workers www.sagrada.com