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English
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Sacramental Living : Reflections on Latter-day Saint Ritual
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By our Rites of Worship : Latter-day Saint views on ritual in scripture, history, and practice
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Provo, UT; Salt Lake City, UT
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The Religious Studies Center, BYU; Deseret Book Company
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401-417
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As we seen throughout this volume, Latter-day Saint rituals, like other ritual behavior, play a predominant role in establishing and maintaining relationships with one another here on this earth. But they also play an important, salvific role in establishing and maintaining relationships with the divine world as well. Robert Millet’s essay reflects on this aspect of our ritual behavior by highlighting three general categories of Latter-day Saint ritual: salvific ordinances, ordinances of comfort, and personal sacraments. Through performing each, he suggests that we are able to commune with God as Saints, as brothers and sisters in the gospel, and ultimately as children of God—which, in the end, may be why God instituted these rituals in the first place. [Daniel Belnap]