Little Book of Christian Rituals in the Home - Couverture souple

Gunning, Tom

 
9781847300232: Little Book of Christian Rituals in the Home

Synopsis

Details the numerous religious festivals that take place throughout the year and how they can be celebrated in the home. From Shrove Tuesday to Easter Sunday, pancakes to lamb, Celtic Bed Blessings to Prayers for Harvest, Tom Gunning lays out in an accessible and interactive fashion the ways in which we can take the spiritual into the personal. Also included are prayers, rituals and blessings for such occasions as the birth of a child or the passing of a loved one.

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Revue de presse

Tom Gunning has done a great service to parents who want to take on some of the responsibility for forming their children in their faith that would have been done almost exclusively in school. The book is a real treasure, a resource, full of beautiful prayers and rituals for the important occasions of life and for all times and seasons. There are prayers for getting into bed at night, for sowing, for harvest, for solstice and equinox, for bringing home a new infant, for teenager going out at night, for lighting candles, for placing gifts around the tree at Christmas time. And there hints for creating a sacred space in the home. The directions are short and clear. The material is very accessible. A very handy book, and one to cherish too. --Review appeared in Catholic Ireland.net 2007

Gunning looks at the various events that occur throughout the year, including the liturgical seasons and family occasions visiting a grace, or a child hurting itself and supplies a suitable ritual to accompany them. For instance when a child falls, he suggests putting holy water on the sore limb and saying a prayer he provides. Many of the rituals and prayers are very old and the whole book has a charming air that recalls an older, more devout Ireland. --Review appeared in Books Ireland, May 2007

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Little Book of Christian Rituals in the Home details the numerous religious festivals that take place throughout the year and how they can be celebrated in the home. From Shrove Tuesday to Easter Sunday, pancakes to lamb, Celtic Bed Blessings to Prayers for Harvest, Tom Gunning lays out in an accessible and interactive fashion the ways in which we can take the spiritual into the personal. Also included are prayers, rituals and blessings for such occasions as the birth of a child or the passing of a loved one.

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