Featured Resource | May 2011

Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life

by Jim Clarke, MROP 2003, Ghost Ranch, NM

160 pages \ 5 ^3/8 x 8 \ Paperback \ $14.95 \ 978-0-8091-4716-8

Life is full of ups and downs. Whether we like it or not, we are on a constant roller coaster of successes and failures, major life changes, losses and transitions. For our happiness and inner peace, we often need help in negotiating these passages through turbulent times. We in the North American culture have forgotten the magic our ancestors knew—how to use rituals for a successful life journey. This book will teach you the secrets of how to create personal, family, and communal rituals that will change your life.

Through this book readers will learn:

• how to create rituals for life stages and transitions
• how to heal and transform relationships
• the differences between ceremony and ritual
• the important elements of an effective ritual
• the skills to move forward through times of loss and change
• how to repair ritual failures

Rev. Jim Clarke has an extensive academic background in the fields of spirituality, education, counseling, ritual, and mythology. He has a special interest in men’s work and masculine spirituality. With over 25 years of experience as a ritual elder and teacher, he currently serves as director of spiritual formation and chairman of spiritual theology at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, CA.

Creating Rituals is available for purchase online through Amazon.com or Paulist Press.

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