#ritual
This architectural mode of enclosure and enfolding suggests sanctuary, retreat, and escape. From the narthex entry one is invited to lose oneself in this space that channels the pilgrim into a labyrinth of octagons and circles, inviting a wandering that seems to escape from the driven, goal-oriented ways we inhabit the “outside” world. The pilgrim
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration .
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can... See more
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Byung-cChul Han interview
That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine, the coffee to a prayer.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Rituals provide a nameable container for managing transformation and making meaning.
How do rituals work? – Ritual Design Toolkit
Anything can be a ritual, you just have to name it before it ends. This was a Ritual of Permission.
Miranda July • All Fours: A Novel
A monstrance , also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory ),[1] is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for ostension, e.g., the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of... See more
Monstrance
“Forms of rituals, such as manners, make possible both beautiful behaviour among humans and a beautiful, gentle treatment of things. In a ritual context, things are not consumed or used up but used. Thus, they can also become old”
“Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity”
“Symbolic
... See moreritual things → recognised as technology
To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.