How is Holy Friday in Umbanda – Blog

The Catholic Church celebrates, on Good Friday, the death of Jesus, who was crucified. Meanwhile, the Good Friday in Umbanda has another meaning. Afro-Umbandists celebrate LOROGUN, which is when the Orixás go to war with evil to bring their children their daily bread.

Umbanda rituals also accompany Lent. On Ash Wednesday, for example, the Orixás of the house are dressed and each saint offers them their favorite food. The atabaques are washed and stored, and are only woken up on Hallelujah Saturday.

What does Holy Friday mean in Umbanda?

For Umbanda, Holy Week represents the creation of the world, so during this period, Umbanda people dress in white, especially on Good Friday. In addition to white clothes, they only eat foods of that color, such as hominy, rice pudding and bread. This is the day when the Orixás descend from Orún (spiritual world), to know the great creation of Olorum (Great Creator, Divine, God creator of everything).

On Thursday night for Passion Friday, Umbanda followers protect themselves with their counter-eguns. Eguns are spirits that have not yet acquired a degree of consciousness and often do not even know that they have disincarnated, and can become obsessors. For example, some connect with someone incarnate to experience their addictions such as alcohol, drugs or sex. Others, because they don’t want to get away from a loved one such as a wife or child, suck all the energy from the person, and he becomes like a zombie vampire, totally apathetic. What happens is that, tonight, Iansã is at war, and she can’t keep away the eguns that are hanging around.

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The Umbanda Ceremony

On Holy Friday in Umbanda, dishes are offered to Oxalá, asking for peace and prosperity for the Terreiro and its following children.

The Body Closing ceremony is held on Good Friday in Umbanda, as it is a day of energetic greatness on the planet. In this ceremony, the spiritual guides use the magnetism of herbs and some crystals, solar and lunar magnets and pemba (special chalk, made with the powder extracted from the Kimbanda White Mountains and the water that flows in the Divino U-Síl River) to close the body.

Pemba is used to scratch points on people and on the ground, creating links with the spiritual plane that emanates vibrations, fluids and energies directly at the scratched point. Each point has its own meaning, but only the Entity that crossed out knows it.

As for the magnetization in the centers of force, it prevents the action of energy manipulating spirits (eguns). When the entity magnetizes the medium’s center of strength, it creates around it a shield that protects it, always respecting the law of attunement, as the medium continues with the connections and affinities that he himself creates through his mental field. However, the medium must be aware that, even with the “closed body”, he is not free from the attunements that he himself attracts, but, if he knows how to use the energy charge added to the chakras, with the solar and lunar magnets, he can dynamize your energy into incredible potential.

The purpose of closing the body is to leave the medium prepared for all kinds of work. Millions of spirits are drawn to treatment, many of them suffer, mainly under the influence of vampirism. When the medium undergoes this treatment and is prepared, he does not absorb the energies of these spirits during the “discharge” work, protecting his energy field.

May Holy Friday in Umbanda be with great peace, and may Father I hope bless everyone’s lives and family, regardless of spiritual belief.