A priest friend wrote about what smudging means.
Different tribes think different things. However ALL involve DEMONS (cfr. Paul).
I understand some bishops want to approve certain “indigenous” rites like smudging.
This needs widespread attention and help.
Can you post INTELLIGENT thing about this.
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I’ve heard of friends having to attend smudging ceremonies at work!! It’s bad in Canada. School boards, workplaces, even Church. That’s gunna be a no from me dawg!
North American martyrs pray for us!
I haven’t been to a smudging, but my son and I attended a daily Mass in western Montana where, in “honor” of the deceased for whom the Mass was being offered, a conch shell was blown to invoke the ancestral spirits.
My son and I always carry holy water and we simultaneously broke out both containers (fastest holy water draws in the West – of Montana, anyways) and sprinkled ourselves and our surroundings liberally. We were prepared to leave if anymore shenanigans ensued. Fortunately, there were no more pagan invocations. We offered the rest of the Mass in reparation and for the protection of those at the Mass.
We attended Sunday Mass in central Montana where the pastor offered the Latin Mass. We went to him after Mass and told him what happened. He performed a minor exorcism in Latin and we went home relieved.
I am in a Canadian diocese with a number of Reserves in our territory.
If you ask two First Nations about smudging, you’ll get three answers—to borrow the joke about Rabbis.
Some see it as a traditional cultural gesture, a symbol. Bear in mind, most are baptized, and many are Catholic. And you can find on some reserves, they can in fact be very traditional Catholics—sometimes telling the arriving priests that they insist on having Latin plainchant.
But others will see it as a type of worship and veneration spirits.
Perhaps this isn’t the most helpful answer, but I suppose I wanted to highlight that there isn’t a universal opinion on it from First Nations themselves.