Lesson1-mid Flashcards
❑ Provide a tangible way for believers to experience their faith.
RITUALS
❑ Beliefs are the province of your mind, but rituals get the rest of your body into the ____.
Act
❑ Through ______, religions take physical form. These practices give texture and taste, form and function to a religion.
Rituals
are also often limited to the people who make up a particular religion.
Religious Rituals
Religious Rituals
»Establish the sacred calendar and its holy days.
» Set the ways followers celebrate the passages in life.
» Focus the mind in a spiritually disciplined way.
What religion practices this traditional ritual?
Light candles on Friday
night.
Jews/judaism
What religion practices this traditional ritual?
Offering/taking Holy Communion
Christians
What religion practices this traditional ritual?
Pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj
Muslims
a communication to God.
Prayer
Many believe their prayers are answered and evidence of it is primarily reported in the _____ and _______.
Old and New Testament.
It is done by those who trust the power of word and thought.
Prayer
is a prayer service that includes the most important Christian ritual,
Catholic Mass
defines the
community that prays
together.
The Eucharist
Method of Christian Prayer
A- Adoration
C- Confession
T- Thanks Giving
S- Supplication
Many Buddhist and Hindu
sects pray for many hours at
a time.
» They find solace and
release from stress by
looking inside themselves
in order to experience the …
What are they seeking?
Great void or emptiness
