The Little Book of Christian Rituals in the Home - Softcover

Gunning, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847300235 ISBN 13: 9781847300232

Publisher: Veritas Books, 2008

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.

About this title

Review

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

About the Author

Tom Gunning is married and lives in Wexford. Hi is a catechetical writer and past publications include Worship, Prayer and Ritual (Veritas, 2005) and The Inner Place (Veritas, 2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Veritas Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847300235
• ISBN 13: 9781847300232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96