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What are rituals?
Rock Schuler: Rituals are habits that form within us, a holy disposition, a particular outlook upon life. They cultivate within us our spirituality. They undergird and reinforce our spirituality. Rituals are things that we do repetitively. Even non-ritualistic spiritual traditions have rituals, they might gather once a week for worship or every time they gather for worship, there might be a sermon. Those gathering, those sermons are rituals.
Rituals are the pillars that uphold our spirituality, our faith. They keep us in contact, in touch with the presence of God around us
Expert: Rock Schuler
Email: rock.schuler@stjohnsolney.org
Rock Schuler was most recently the Rector (Pastor) of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Olney, Maryland. He has served as an ordained minister of the Episcopal Church since 1990 after studying for the priesthood at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He was awarded a Doctorate of Ministry in Congregational Development in 2002. In the course of his ministry, Rock has served on an Indian More »
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