Rite

A rite is said to be "a religious or other solemn ceremony or act."

A religion may be defined as just what you think about a supreme being but to others religion is how you perform your duty to that God of creation and to your fellow man according to Divine will.

A rite is also defined as "a social custom, practice, or conventional act" but social custom are often enmeshed in culture. All cultures do not produce the same outcomes. The social bonds or political bands of society are the result of cultural and collective choices which may be identified by their rituals and ceremonies and what has become their customary practices.

So, a religious rite to the early Christians was how they provided for the needy of their society through a daiy ministration of fervent charity.

Their feasts or tables of welfare were not spotted by the covetous practices the world but were the result of the conventional acts of charity resultin from the practice of Pure Religion in fulfilling that duty to their fellow man.

Their communion, the Eucharist of Christ, was actually the conventional acts of helping one another through a system of living altars of faith and charity.

Conventional acts

If a rite was a conventional act what was a conventional act to the early Christians?

A conventional act is "based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed."

Early Christians did not believe that it was right to pray to men, rulers, or princes of the world system who called themselves Benefactors but who exercised authority one over the other. They considered such application for benefits to be a covetous practice and knew they were a snare that would jeopardize they liberty in Christ.

This was the Christian conflict with Rome and the conflict with true Christians and the Modern Christians of the world who do covet those benefits and are willing to be taking a bite out of one another in the myriad of social welfare benefits offered today.

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