RyanThomasMcBride

RyanThomasMcBride I offer support and service to craft and lead meaningful rituals that celebrate life, love and loss. Rituals that celebrate life, love and loss.

21/06/2017

As many of you are aware, I have a past history in religion. As I am slowly, but surely, completing the Cert IV in Celebrancy my journal reflections have caused me to ask: What are people's experiences with religion (institutional or personal) and how do these experiences inform and/or affect one's ritual life (generally speaking, when religion is not 'involved')? I would love to start a conversation that will play a clear part in looking at ritual in a post institutional religious world and/or a world where institutional religion is being questioned.

06/06/2017

People who subscribe to rites and ritual are often, although not uniformly, people who subscribe to a religious and/or spiritual tradition of some form. With the following idea, I hope to ignite a conversation about one element of rites and rituals, that being the human ‘need’ for God / god / a higher being / a spiritual other.

At this juncture, I am not talking about philosophical ideals and/or ideas, but the ‘other’ that comes with the “I-Thou” relationship.

Please, comment about any element of the lead up to the idea (... subscribe…), the idea itself (... need...), the caveat (... juncture…) and the following set of questions, thus:

Why do we search for meaning and purpose?
What drives us?
What holds us back?
How does the search for meaning and purpose play itself out?
What is the result of this search?
What does the search for meaning and purpose draw/call us into?
Into where does an authentic search for meaning and purpose actually bring the human person?

05/06/2017

In his book, 'The Little Prince', by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the little prince questions the fox, by asking: "What is a rite?". In reply, the fox says, "... actions too often neglected [that] make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours". (Chapter XXI, pg 68 in my 1974 Pan Books Ltd edition).

Rites, like rituals, are used to punctuate the movement of time with clear frameworks for meaning making. I intend for this FB page to be the space where moments of meaning making that speak of life, love and loss can be sourced and spoken about freely and respectfully and without neglect.

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