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Modeling rituals for our children →

July 22, 2019 Scott P. Richert

Our lives are composed of rituals, big and small. It’s not a question of whether we will take part in rituals; it’s only a matter of what those rituals are — and how significant they seem to us and to others.

In Our Sunday Visitor, All Things New Tags ritual, Nones, Mass, liturgy, Catholicism
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