“Birthdays, baptisms, graduations, weddings, initiations, and other ritual occasions gather up the threads of ordinary life and weave them into a tapestry of the extraordinary. The value of this ritual framing of time is not that it establishes a firewall between ordinary and extraordinary time but, rather, that it discloses that what we can see as true in the clear light of ritual remains true in the shadows of ordinary experience.” — Thomas G. Long, Accompany them with singing, p.100
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