Rituals

A collection of rituals for families to use at home.

Prayers & Rituals	A Leaving Home Ritual & Blessing • FamilyFaith@Home A ritual and blessing to celebrate a young adult's departure from home.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	A Guide to Family Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home Rituals are essential for our family life. Family rituals give us a sense of permanence, the assurance that even the most ordinary of family activities are meaningful and significant. Use this guide to form your own family rituals.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Bedtime Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home In every culture, parents create bedtime rituals for babies and young children to ease separation from the parent and the passage from waking state to sleeping state. The familiar repetition of such bedtime rituals marks and defines the parent-child relationship as one where comfort, reliability, and safety are available. Use this guide to create your own bedtime rituals.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Birthday Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home Birthdays can be an important time for individuals and families to mark new family relationships, honor the aging process, remember the birth parents, reconnect when there has been loss or cutoffs, and just have fun. Use this guide to create your own birthday rituals.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Death Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home Use this guide to create rituals for your family when they experience a death.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Leisure Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home Use this guide to create family rituals centered on leisure time.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Marriage Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home Use this guide to create your own family rituals when someone gets married.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Mealtime Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home The family meal is a ritual through with families learn about many aspects of their relationships, including gender roles; boundaries around individuals, pairs, allowable topics for conversation; the range of permitted emotions; changes in family members; and the family as a whole. Use these ideas to jumpstart your own family meal rituals.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Milestones in School Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home Use these ideas to mark school milestones.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Modern Life Passage Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home Ritual ideas for when families experience divorce, retirement, or a geographical change.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Rituals for Leaving & Returning • FamilyFaith@Home Family members develop ritualized ways of saying good-bye when they leave each other to go to work or school, and of saying hello when they greet each other again after being apart. Here are some ideas to help you develop your own family rituals.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Baptism Rituals • FamilyFaith@Home The Christian Church has a special way of welcoming and supporting the development of a child's faith life. This special way is Baptism. To help celebrate the reception of this sacrament, here are some favorite baptism celebrations that you might find helpful in expressing your hopefulness for your child and the newest member of the Christian community.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Rituals for Welcoming a New Baby • FamilyFaith@Home Use these ideas to create your own rituals for welcoming a new baby.		View all
Prayers & Rituals	Rituals for Mothers' Day & Fathers' Day • FamilyFaith@Home A collection of ideas for families to celebrate mothers and fathers.		View all