Amen No Frills
I am baptized.
To pray with hands together,
and also to ask with an open heart.
I grew up hearing “amen”
with respect, but also with a certain curiosity.
I've always had faith —
but I could never accept that there was only one way to live it.
I have devotion, but the walls don't fit me.
I like church, the smell of candles
and also a yard with the smell of wet earth,
where that grandmother blessed with a twig and silence.
I am made of faith and questions.
Of inherited beliefs,
and others that were born from my own perspective on the world.
On this page, we will talk about everything :
of the rosary and the drum,
of the orisha and the guardian angel,
of the Gospel and incense.
Here, there is no single “right” thing.
There is what touches you.
There is what comforts you.
There is what wakes you up inside.
“Amen No Frills” is a sacred space —
but without pose, without pointing a finger,
without fear of mixing questions with prayer.
Let's talk about God,
of faith, of ritual, of symbol, of silence.
Let's respect what is sacred to each one
and perhaps even discover that the divine has more forms than we imagined.
Because, deep down,
the sky is too wide to be fenced.
And faith, when it is alive,
no need for frills — just truth.
If you want, you can take off your shoes. The divine also walks barefoot around here.
– Amen No Fuss.
by Danielle Parada Official