Rituals for Life, Love & Loss - Dorothy McRae-McMahon

Rituals are an important part of our lives and for centuries we have celebrated birth, marriage and death as significant events. In today’s society rituals are often overlooked or forgotten as the old ways, often linked with places of worship, feature less in our everyday lives.

This new book provides spiritual rituals and meditations which can be used at times of celebration and grief, in public and private. They can be used at a large gathering such as a wedding or in a private moment of reflection. The author, Dorothy Mcrae-McMahon, is a retired Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and is internationally renowned for her work with ritual. She has developed rituals for communities in grief (Port Arthur Ceremony) and for many individuals.

With eight books already published, this is the first time Dorothy’s rituals and meditations for everyday life have been made available t the general reader regardless of their faith.

The book is in three parts:

• The celebration, the in between and the grieving.

Contents include:

• The Celebration Blessing a home
• Naming a child
• Celebrating a milestone birthday
• Marriage ceremony
• The In Between Ending a marriage
• Facing illness
• Sending someone you love into care
• Forgiving yourself
• The Grieving Facing a miscarriage
• Farewelling a loved one who is dying
• Scattering the ashes of a loved one
• A simple funeral

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