🌟 OUR PURPOSE

Pastoral Care offers:

• Hospital visits & bedside ceremonies

• Pre-surgery blessings

• Sacred transition rites (URF’s version of “last rites”)

• Prayer and identity affirmation

• Anointing & healing rituals

• Spiritual crisis support

• Family and caregiver support

• LGBTQIA+ affirming clergy presence

• Ancestor invocation and spiritual protection

Every ritual is grounded in URF’s sacred belief:

🌈 Your life, your gender, and your identity are holy expressions of the Creator.
You are sacred — always.

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🕯 HOSPITAL & BEDSIDE VISITS

A Sacred Holding of a Life

Our ministers provide gentle, affirming, spiritually rich support for:

• Surgery preparation

• Critical or unstable health situations

• End-of-life moments

• Recovery and healing

• Family grief and anxiety

• Trauma or medical emergencies

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A typical pastoral visit may include:

• Opening Invocation

• Identity Affirmation

• Prayer for Protection & Healing

• Anointing Rite (optional)

• Ancestor Invocation

• Transition Blessing (when desired)

• Closing Words

These ceremonies are written to be LGBTQIA+ affirming, trauma-informed, spiritually grounded, and emotionally safe.

If a loved one cannot speak, the blessing is still performed as a spiritual act of protection, dignity, and love.

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🕯 SACRED TRANSITION RITE

(URF’s Sacred End-of-Life Ceremony)

This rite may be offered when:

• A surgery or medical event carries high risk

• A person is near transition

• A family requests spiritual preparation

• The individual wants spiritual peace, grounding, or closure

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This rite includes:

• Ancestral invocation

• Protection prayer

• Release of fear

• Spoken blessing

• Affirmation of identity

• Declaration of safety and Divine holding

• Comfort for family or loved ones present

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We honor all transitions as sacred, peaceful, and held by Divine Light.

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🌙 EMERGENCY SHORT BLESSING

Used when time is limited:

“You are sacred.
You are not alone.
Spirit surrounds you.
The ancestors protect you.
Peace to your heart.
Strength to your spirit.
Light to your path.
And so it is.”

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🌈 ANCESTOR INVOCATION IN TIMES OF CRISIS

We call upon ancestors of:

• LGBTQIA+ lineage

• Indigenous, African, Latinx, Asian, Middle Eastern, Pacific Islander, and European lineages

• Those who knew oppression, exile, illness, or violence

• All queer and transgender saints

The invocation is used to bring:

• Protection

• Comfort

• Strength

• Spiritual guidance

• Safety for the soul

This is one of URF’s most powerful and distinct practices.

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✨ IDENTITY AFFIRMATION IN MEDICAL SETTINGS

Many LGBTQIA+ people experience fear or erasure in hospitals.
URF clergy affirm:

• True name

• True pronouns

• Gender identity

• Sacred autonomy

• Divine dignity

We declare:

🌈 Your body is holy. Your identity is sacred. Your truth is Divine.

This affirmation is spoken aloud when desired and becomes part of the ritual.

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🕊 PRAYER REQUESTS

If you or a loved one need prayer — for healing, strength, peace, protection, or transition — you may submit a request at:

👉 Prayer Support (existing tab on your website)

All requests are prayed on by clergy and incorporated into weekly services unless marked private.

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🌈 HOW TO REQUEST A PASTORAL VISIT

Please provide:

• Name of person needing care

• Hospital name & room number

• Condition (optional)

• Urgency

• Whether the person is awake/able to speak

• Whether family will be present

• Whether Sacred Transition Rite may be needed

• Contact for updates

Email: contact@universalrainbowfaith.org
(you may add a temporary pastoral care phone number later)

Visits may be in-person or virtual depending on distance and hospital policy.

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🌈 WHO MAY RECEIVE PASTORAL CARE?

URF offers Pastoral Care to:

• Members

• Visitors

• LGBTQIA+ people with no spiritual home

• Allies

• Families

• Anyone in crisis who requests spiritual support

Care is never denied on the basis of:

• Gender

• Sexual orientation

• Religion

• Politics

• Ability to pay

• Legal status

• Past history

Pastoral Care is always:
💗 Free, sacred, and unconditional.

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🌟 CLERGY GUIDELINES 

Ministers are trained to:

• Lead affirming, trauma-informed rituals

• Respect the medical environment

• Ask for consent before touch

• Maintain confidentiality

• Adapt the ritual for the individual

• Use correct pronouns and chosen name

• Provide comfort without judgment

• Honor both survivors and those near transition

• Hold space for families

• Invoke ancestors in alignment with URF doctrine

This ensures every ritual is holy, dignified, and spiritually safe.

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🌈 DOWNLOADS (COMING SOON)

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• URF Clergy Hospital Rite Booklet

• Hospital Prayer Card

• Sacred Transition Certificate

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🌌 FINAL BLESSING ON THE PAGE

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“May you feel the Rainbow Light of Love surrounding you.
May healing rise where fear once lived.
May peace settle in your heart,
and may you always know —
you are sacred,
you are loved,
and you never walk alone.”