Communion

Rituals give religion tradition and bound its followers together. Without the rituals there is an obscurity as what to follow. I see rituals as activities people involve themselves in occasionally in order to feel accomplished in their religion. The rituals, after being performed for centuries, seem to lose real value through monotonous repetition. People cannot always feel extremely in tune with communion every time they do it. But after they are done, they feel as though they have done their part. Communion is something that binds everyone together in the catholic faith and some protestant faiths as well. I remember when I went to church, I had to take a class in order to formally join the church and thus participate in communion. After I finished the class, I was excited to finally take part in communion. While I finally participated in communion, I felt truly connected to the other church members of all ages.  Before I was just a kid that had to stay seated because he was not yet a member. But now, I was a part of a much larger group of many different people, equally participating in the ritual. I felt very mature that day and accomplished after communion. All of the ritual was explained to me, but to this day I do not understand why we pretend to eat and drink Christ. This is probably very common though with other rituals in other religions. There might not be a sensible reason for everything, but as long as it is tradition and creates a community of followers the reason does not matter as much.