After extensive research on Andre Dubus I have found that he was in fact quite a spiritual man and followed many rituals. After his death, the world failed to recognize his rituals outside of his very famous and excellent writing. He was a deeply sacramental person; it was incarnational spirituality (Catholic) that strengthened his writing. This strength was used to bring him through very tough times when he was facing depression due to the fact that he had lost both of his legs in a car accident in 1986. Dubus believed that the most important sacrament was in fact the Eucharist. He said this about the Eucharist, “Since I was a boy, this sacrament has sustained my belief in God, who joined us here on earth to eat and drink and be joyful, to love and grieve, to suffer and die. For most of my life, I have tried to receive the Eucharist daily.” Dubus wrote this in one of his essays, “Bodily Mysteries” in his last collection of books, Meditations from a Moveable Chair that was published in 1998. Andre Dubus’ rituals and faith was deep. He said “I don’t know how somebody without a religious or philosophical background could exist in the world without despair,” during an interview in 1990. “I rarely concentrate on a moment of anything,” he said, “but writing and exercise and receiving Communion.” This is what Dubus was best known for writing about and he had a great understanding of rituals and spirituality. Dubus’ faith was Catholic. He expressed this sacramentally, and expressed his thoughts with a lot of confidence. In the books that he published, readers will find very impassioned words about his life expressed by the sacraments (Eucharist was the most important for Dubus, then communion), which is found in most of Dubus’ writings. I think a good metaphor to describe Andre Dubus’ life is, from darkness to enlightenment. I think this is a good metaphor because during the time from when he gets both of his