This page is part of “Creating a New Positive Religion or Spiritual Tradition”.

This is still a DRAFT.

Many religious people mark life’s major transitions with their tradition’s rites of passage. How does our tradition offer this?

The ceremonies

We mark life’s turning points with ceremonies, including:

  • Birth and naming
  • Coming of age
  • Wedding
  • Divorce
  • Farewell and death
  • Recovery from a serious illness
  • Thanksgiving for a great rescue: for example, after an accident or a natural disaster.
  • Thanksgiving for a great success
  • Thanksgiving for a great failure: a ceremony to stop and appreciate the experience of trying to achieve something, even though it did not succeed.
  • Joining Lumessianity (see below)

These are suggestions. Like everything else in our tradition, each group can create and design further ceremonies according to its own understanding, through co-creation.

Joining Lumessianity

Joining Lumessianity is a very important ceremony. It has two parts:

  1. The declaration of the new members: the people joining read aloud a declaration stating that they agree with the values of Lumessianity, and that they adopt the intention and the aspiration to live by these values.
  2. The welcome of the community: the people who are already members of the community then read aloud a declaration of welcome to the new members. It expresses appreciation, gratitude, and joy at their joining, and the community’s intention and willingness to help the new members put the values into practice.

See the current draft of both declarations: The Joining Declarations.