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• n  any customary observance or practice
• n  the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies
• n  stereotyped behavior
• a  of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals
  ritual killing
• a  of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals
  a ritual dance of Haiti
  sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties"- Nadine Gordimer

• The Penningroths found the ritual so meaningful that they co-wrote A Healing Divorce: Transforming the End of Your Relationship with Ritual and Ceremony (1st Books).
• If it is really possible to govern a country by ritual and yielding, there is no more to be said.
• Mormon Temple rituals aren't secret they're sacred.

• rite

News & Articles

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• Lululemon Is Looking for a Powerful (Maybe Satanic?) Leader
  Lululemon, purveyor of exhibitionist yoga wear, is looking for a new CEO after Christine Day stepped down this week. They placed an ad looking for a candidate to lead their company who will "wear The Mansy to lead our company-wide morning chant and kombucha ritual." They're joking ... we hope? The Mansy is a Borat-esque bodysuit (at right) which was thankfully an April Fool's joke. 
  June 14, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
• 'Ride of the Valkyries' rouses Caltech students for finals
  In a long-standing ritual, residents at one of Caltech's dorms wake to Wagner's score during their stressful finals season. The courtyard at Blacker House at Caltech was quiet at 6:59 a.m. Wednesday, the empty concrete space littered with several splintered wooden pallets, three large tires, a crowbar and sledgehammer.        
  June 13, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Studio Session: Morning Ritual
  Morning Ritual's new album features widely varied styles from jazz to R&B and more. Watch them perform the chamber folk opening song "The Drought," which echoes Aaron Copland in its use of octaves and in the way it evokes the open space of the American plains.
  June 11, 2013 - Oregon Public Broadcasting