Introduction: Worship as ritual : understanding and claiming ethical Christian ritual -- Creative rites : assessing pastoral ritual need -- Ritual midwives : planning and leading ritual -- Metaphors and symbols : linking a person's story to the Christian story -- Ritual honesty : holding truthful tension -- Holy sacrifice : mediating the labor pains of change -- The paschal mystery : the crux of caring ritual.
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Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies, Susan Marie Smith proposes that Christian ritual is both a method and a means for helping people through liminal times of transition and uncertainty, even vulnerability and fear. It teaches readers to recognize the ritual needs of fellow Christians and thus create post-baptismal rites of passage and healing that might strengthen and support them in the fulfillment of their ministries.
JSTOR
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Caring liturgies.
9780800697365
Pastoral care.
Rites and ceremonies.
Ritual.
Ritualism.
Pastoral care.
RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
RELIGION-- Christian Rituals & Practice-- Worship & Liturgy.