Rituals

Watching the rituals is a little like looking through a window at a particularly dramatic and captivating bit of weather. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to the Telegraph, dozens of albinos have been killed and dismembered in rituals, under the local belief that charms made from their body parts can bring good luck. ❋ Curtis M. Wong (2010)

The Council of Trent taught that human nature is such that it can not easily rise to the meditation of divine things without external aids, and for this reason the Church as a loving mother has established certain rituals [...] to make more evident the majesty of a sacrifice so great and bring the minds of the faithful, with these visible signs of religion and piety, to the sublime contemplation of reality (DS 1746). ❋ Unknown (2009)

At The Energy Project, we help our clients develop something we call rituals -- highly specific behaviors, done at precise times, so they eventually become automatic and no longer require conscious will or discipline. ❋ Tony Schwartz (2011)

Look: religiously I use the swastika (by another name) in rituals just as it appears in bronze-age and iron age finds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If anything, the canon (pseudo-fact book, not fiction or film) on these things says zombies have to be made in rituals, so a zombie would have started like that, not underground. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By the sound of it, rituals is the best chapter in the book! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Latin rituals for ordaining deaconesses exist from as late as the 10th century, but the precise sacramental nature of these ordinations has not yet been determined authoritatively. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And their alchemy yields a precious libation revered and exulted in rituals both daily and sacred; from the family meal to religious rites. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Another of our family Christmas rituals is making the mince pies. ❋ Lili (2008)

Indeed, one of the appeals of these digitized rituals is that they are a sustainable alternative to the gas-guzzling, water-guzzling, space-guzzling and money-guzzling Arcadian lawns with which most (American) cemeteries are landscaped. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Beside amate paper, ordinary tissue paper-cutouts of the spirits are also employed in rituals and books to provide an accent of color. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One of my favorite relaxation rituals is to light a candle, pour a glass of wine, and recline in a hot bubble bath with a good book. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Elisa Albert, author of How This Night Is Different (Free Press, $18.95) a smart, funny and often bawdy collection of stories about young Jews looking for meaning in rituals that include a seder, a wedding, bat mitzvah, a Yom Kippur service and a packaged tour of Auschwitz. ❋ Unknown (2007)

James-Aye you [gonna] [perform] your rituals [tonight]? Mike-hell yeah ❋ Phantomk (2013)

[You going] to Ritual [today]? ❋ Alexk33alt (2010)

1. [Judaism] requires adherents to wash their hands as a ritual. 2. Employees are scheduled to wash their hands before returning to work. 3. [Psychological] [compulsion] may cause ritual hand-washing. ❋ Downstrike (2004)

(1) The footballer is going through their [pre-game] ritual. Don't disturb them. (2) That fraternity/society has a specific [hazing] ritual. (3) Some people perform mating [rituals] (4) Religion is known for having many different rituals. ❋ TheCleverDumbass (2019)

The two penguins sat around the campfire [ritualizing], cause they wanted to murder [jschlatt] and Charlie [slimecicle], they were too sus for their own good and gay Satan came on them. ❋ SpaceXDragon (2021)

[Did you] see Mochipet [throw down] at Ritual [last night]? ❋ CrazyCelt (2011)

you got any ritual on you? [mmmm] -smells like ritual in here. let's hit that [rich bitch]. we're going to go [git] rich. ❋ Yajohnson (2009)

[Hym] "Rituals? Yes I [dig] ['em]" ❋ Hym Iam (2022)

1) [NBA Youngboy] just painted his face like [a clown] .. That was a humiliation ritual 2) Charlamagne “da god” just gifted [Dj Envy] a butt toy of his ass and balls. I thought he was g. Must be a humiliation ritual ❋ Truthestseeker (2021)

I'm off to do my [bedtime rituals], then [I'm going to sleep], [good night]! ❋ Srsballer (2009)