So yesterday I was having one of those days. Well mainly because my brother his getting is body ready for getting up early in the morning as he now has a job. Thank you Fortuna! Well I didn't have anything to offer the gods in the form of food. It's getting a bit rough the last couple of days before the third. So I decided to just pray.
Prayer is a great substitution for ritual. It's personal and private. It still helps us connect to the divine and it tells the gods that your grateful for the little things that you have been blessed with. Rituals are not always needed. Just getting up and doing things is a ritual in itself. Little things really help as far as your connection to the gods.
Personally Roman religion, for me, isn't about the rituals. It's about connecting yourself to your ancestors, trying to understand how your ancestors believed, and trying to bring a bit of that into your own life. The Roman altar does help, along with rituals, but prayer is the most powerful form of devotion that we have. It puts us on the ground level of who we are and it makes us humble.
Relying on the divine for that spiritual connection is so important in our daily lives. Removing the divine is wrong and turns you into a god yourself. And we don't need those kinds of people around. Have a great day and a great month to come.
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