Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
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The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.
Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind of soul-searching agony that tries desperately not to hear, runs in the opposite direction, and frantically tries to reason itself out of answering the invitation.
I do love the idea of ritual.
I believe in rituals.
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.
We lack rituals in this modern world.