Purificatio
Illuminate the altar space,
anoint it with smoke or vapor,
and prepare the appropriate
components before beginning.
Wash both hands in clean water and pray
Haec aqua impuritates a corpore velut
plumbo ad aurum mutando eluat
(May this water cast out all impurities
from my substance as from lead to gold.)
Purga mentem (Purify my mind.)
Purga corpus (Purify my body.)
Purga animum (Purify my heart.)
Ita est! (It is so.)
Purify the whole space
with lustral water – saying
this sacred phrase repeatedly
as you make your way around.
Procul, o procul, este profani!
(Begone whatever is unholy)
Prefatio
Honor Vesta and Janus
with reverent salutations
and water libations.
O Mater Vesta;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Pater Janus;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
Salutatio
Honor the deities of the occasion,
one’s household penates, household lares
and ancestral manes with reverent
salutations and water libations.
O Jupiter-Amun-Set;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Minerva-Neith-Maat;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Horapollo-Belenus;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Dianabast-Mafdet;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Mercuranubis-Odin;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Venus-Epona-Frigga;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Liber-Sucellus-Osiris;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Fortuna-Rosmerta-Isis;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Household Lares;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
O Ancestral Manes;
I pour out this sacred water
libation to quench your thirst.
May you favor this libation
and grant me your blessings.
Precatio
Wash both hands in clean water.
Address and sanctify the food offering
for both Mater Vesta and Pater Janus.
Make purposeful prayers and requests.
O Mater Vesta;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
O Pater Janus;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
Ita est!
Wash both hands in clean water.
Immolatio
Wash both hands in clean water.
Address and sanctify the food offering
prepared for the household penates.
Make purposeful prayers and requests.
O Jupiter-Amun-Set;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
O Minerva-Neith-Maat;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
O Horapollo-Belenus;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
O Dianabast-Mafdet;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
O Mercuranubis-Odin;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
O Venus-Epona-Frigga;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
O Liber-Sucellus-Osiris;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
O Fortuna-Rosmerta-Isis;
I make this sacred offering
of food to nourish your spirit.
May you favor this offering
and grant me your blessings.
Ita est!
Wash both hands in clean water.
Redditio
Make any additional offerings and
personal requests to particular deities.
Litatio
Quietly contemplate about the
gods and watch for signs.
Piaculum
Make any additional prayers and offerings
to pertinent deities – taking time to make
expiations to the gods (piaculum) and be
certain that you always end with Vesta.
O Ancestral Manes;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Household Lares;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Fortuna-Rosmerta-Isis;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Liber-Sucellus-Osiris;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Venus-Epona-Frigga;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Mercuranubis-Odin;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Dianabast-Mafdet;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Horapollo-Belenus;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Minerva-Neith-Maat;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Jupiter-Amun-Set;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Pater Janus;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
O Mater Vesta;
I pour out this sacred water
libation for any unbeknownst offense.
May you accept this expiation.
May you all depart in peace and benevolence.
Wash hands in clean water a
final time and bow in silence.