As for chapel, it was an unwavering part of Sunday ritual.

The children left their playing and came to her, for this was a Sunday ritual, their only one.

But, happily, for the last 24 years, the paper has been our Sunday ritual.

'I'll listen to Alastair Cook and join you later,' Harry told us in the morning, obviously intent on his Sunday ritual.

A gaggle of wives dutifully watched from the boundary, perhaps praying for rain to end this Sunday ritual.

Mr. Buchanan passed the morning in two of his favorite Sunday rituals: visiting churches and appearing on television talk shows.

Laying flowers on Confederate graves remained a Sunday ritual for many women well into the 1950's.

"The Sunday ritual has become a joke," says Peter Bart, the editor of Variety.

Now it's the numbers - the "Sunday ritual" - that reflect the way we live.

There are many more who will be depressed, win or lose, about the sudden loss of football, their beloved Sunday ritual.