Why I Became a Minister

The Dean of Education, Reverend Angela DeBry, H.H.D., D.D. asks me to write about why I become Minister.

She said being a minister means different things to different people and that each of us is called and the reasons change and evolve over time. She went on to give me a list of things she wanted me to think about.  

1. To have a church and services

2. To be a spiritual healer

3. To do spiritual counseling

4. To be a Hospice or hospital chaplain

5. To perform rituals

6. To legally marry, bury or baptize

7. To Teach

Here is my reply…

In my search for ways to heal my own trauma I was drawn to classes and experiences that supported me in spiritual ways. For me, it was this spiritual connection to life that taught me powerful healing tools. I found that personal responsibility was the key to my healing process.

It is unrealistic to think that someone else can heal us, we can only heal ourselves. We are responsible for how we process what happens in our lives, how we think, feel, act and react. We are responsible for our own healing. Blaming others for how we feel gives our power away and builds walls that block our ability to heal and shackles us in a prison of victimization.

The varying tools I learned in my healing process freed me from much of my mental and emotional pain so I could live my life with less resistance and fear and embrace more of the love that flows all around us.

I found that one single spiritual path did not meet all of my needs. 

I continued my training in many faiths and traditions and received my Doctorate of Divinity degree. The tools I have learned in my healing process have been so powerful for me I wanted to help empower others in their own paths to healing. We all have hurts; self-imposed walls that keep us from truly embracing and sharing love. I now work with many tools from different faiths and traditions to create custom ceremonies, rituals, and healing modalities.   

I chose to become a minister for legal reasons. I could not share my gifts if I was not legally licensed to do so. As a minister with Sacred Foundations, Inc., I am legally able to facilitate others in their own healing process, through spiritual counseling, hands on healing, ritual, prayer and teaching. As an added gift I am legally able to perform ceremonies such as weddings, funerals, baptisms and other rites of passage. What a gift it is to anoint a new baby, facilitate their coming of age, join them in marriage, ritualize and honor their croning, sit with them at the end of their life and then comfort those who will miss them when they have returned to spirit.

I have not just found tools for healing. I have been gifted with the ability to feel and embrace life, in all its highs and lows. I have found that even the extreme lows in life are gifts, for it gives me the ability to fully feel and embrace the opposite and equal highs that life has to offer. For without one you cannot truly understand and feel the other.

For me, being a minister has been a blessing. It has expanded my compassion in ways I never thought possible. And it has grown my ability and willingness to hold and share love with myself and others.   

 May you be open to all the blessings in your life, may you feel loved, and above all, may you love yourself.      

In love and light,

Felecia 

Reverend Felecia Mulvany, D.D.

President, Sacred Foundations, Inc.

revmulvany@sacredfoundations.net

www.sacredfoundations.net

877-877-4275

Sacred Foundations, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit church. We affirm the Divine in all its manifestations on earth. We honor all paths and embrace the wisdom of all the Sacred Text across the globe. We believe that only through dialog, education, and community sharing that humanity will find a way to live peacefully together in tolerance and diversity.