The book-passing ritual drew attention to the power of places in our lives, and the importance of noting and honoring them.
The Sufi has to pass various ritual stages (maqām) before he can attain the state of mushāhadah, which is eventually given to him only by an act of sheer grace of God.
My mother made sloe gin every year, passing the autumn ritual on to me.
In the climactic scene of the poem, Edyff, the sister of King 'Athelston' of England, gives birth to Edmund after passing through a ritual ordeal by fire.
Do they have second thoughts about passing up teenage rituals like going to the prom?
The visitor turns this way and that, passing cases filled with ritual bells, coins, measuring devices and maps.
Earlier this month, the UN general assembly convened to engage in its annual ritual of passing a series of resolutions condemning Israel.
But the ritual of passing through the Holy Door still has a special resonance for believers, and many Romans, who had all year to do it, waited until the last minute.
The daily ritual of passing out bread takes place a few hundred yards from the celebrated Oriental plane tree where Hippocrates, the father of medicine born on Kos around 460 BC, purportedly taught his medical students ethics and how to care for others.
We then pass through the ritual stages of an Oxford banquet.
Half a term passed in the ritual frenzies of gossip and competition.
