Quotes About Rituals

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

it would be perfectly proper to regard the Sacraments in the sense of Luther as a kind of acted sermons calculated to sustain the faith (signa paraenetica or con-cionatoria). Quite consistently, therefore, did the Augs burg Confession " condemn those who hold that the Sac raments work justification ex opere operate.

declares: "If anyone saith that in min isters, when they effect and confer the Sacra ments, there is not required the intention at least of doing what the Church does, let him be ana thema/

Does the external sign receive from God a peculiar super natural power enabling it physically to produce sanctify ing grace in the soul, either by a quality inherent in the rite, as Billuart and the Thomists contended, or by an external stimulation of the potentia obedientialis in the soul, as Suarez held?

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We have then, a basic social coin. With awe on one side and shame on the other. The audience senses secret mysteries and powers behind the performance, and the performer senses that his chief secrets are petty ones. As countless folktales and initiation rites show, often the real secret behind the mystery is that there really is no mystery; the real problem is to prevent the audience from learning this too.

As Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche puts it, you can tell what the most important building is within a society by which is the tallest. Within ancient Europe, cathedrals often reached the most soaring heights, as did mosques in the ancient Middle East. Now, in our Western metropolises, we all bow before cathedrals of financial commerce. Our sacred values are implied by our ritualistic choices, whether we agree to them or not. We

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Religion is such a path with people.

All organized religions are basically the same.

I was raised Catholic in a very religious family.

As my mother is a Kerala Brahmin and my father a Kerala Nair, every day in the house is like a religious festival.

We're not religious, but we've always done Passover and Hanukkah.

I don't have any weird night rituals. I definitely am a ritualistic person... I like to go downstairs and remind my roommate-drummer not to practice early the next morning, so I can sleep in.

Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

A Jewish food is one that is almost sanctified, either by its repeated use or use within the holidays or rituals. So food that may have not been Jewish at one point can become Jewish within the cultural context.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.

Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

I like continuity in my life and day to day, I like things that are sort of mundane in a way, things that are familiar. I guess that's why I embrace certain aspects of my religion. It's just sort of the way I roll.

I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.

My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.