Re: Praying at chapter meetings. It's entirely possible that it's part of ritual too. I don't know how that works if there are non-ritual chapter meetings (informal vs formal chapter for example.)
For us it was purely something the chapter members wanted to do (or in the case of some of us, didn't object to), and not part of ritual. It was usually done at the end of chapter, and was sometimes skipped if the meeting was running too long.
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