Do you think Cecilia thought more about what she had to do as a Christian (faith’s duties) or what she got to do as a Christian (faith’s benefits) from the excerpt below? “For Cecilia, the natural cycles of the year—light and dark, warm and cold, work and leisure--were strongly echoed in the ritual calendar. For many of us, religious rituals are comforting but somewhat distant from our everyday lives. For Cecilia, they often spoke about her own experiences: the churching of her mother on the feast of the Purification of the virgin about the coming work of harvest on St. John’s eve; about the deaths of her sisters Emma and Alice on All Saints. In all ways, the ritual year spoke about Cecilia’s religious faith, the natural world, her experiences, and her fears” (Bennett, 60)

Do you think Cecilia thought more about what she had to do as a Christian (faith’s duties) or what she got to do as a Christian (faith’s benefits) from the excerpt below? “For Cecilia, the natural cycles of the year—light and dark, warm and cold, work and leisure--were strongly echoed in the ritual calendar. For many of us, religious rituals are comforting but somewhat distant from our everyday lives. For Cecilia, they often spoke about her own experiences: the churching of her mother on the feast of the Purification of the virgin about the coming work of harvest on St. John’s eve; about the deaths of her sisters Emma and Alice on All Saints. In all ways, the ritual year spoke about Cecilia’s religious faith, the natural world, her experiences, and her fears” (Bennett, 60)