Occasions

Start with what is happening. Each occasion gathers what different traditions do at that moment, with the source named on every text.

Health and illness

Illness, recovery and the wish for someone to be well.

Includes before surgery, serious illness.

The last hours, and what each tradition asks be done at them.

Arrival, naming and welcome.

Hoping for a child.

Weddings and the blessing of a union.

After a death, including the formal mourning periods traditions set.

Includes pregnancy and infant loss, funerals and burial.

Fear, worry and the nights that do not end.

Peace of mind, peace in a household, peace between peoples.

Practice, doubt and the ordinary work of belief.

Holding on to belief, and finding it again.

Partners, families and the repair of what is strained.

Work, money and having enough.

Gratitude, and the blessing of people, homes and meals.