WE ARE EMBODIED CREATURES. PHYSICAL RITUALS ARE IMPORTANT TO BRIDGE THE WAY TO WHAT WE CAN’T QUITE CONCEPTUALIZE:  Faith and Ritual.

I think the sixties stripping of ritual and “senseless” tradition, pretty much across the board of most Western religious observation was a grave error and an example of removing Chesterton’s fence. Turned out we hadn’t evolved away from needing it.