On 29 August 1582, Richard Stonley, a civil servant in Westminster, noted in his diary that he had attended the christening of his grandson. After listing the guests at the event, he concluded the entry ‘with thankes to god for that Dayes worke’. Stonley’s description of the event as a type of work reveals the interconnected ways in which pre-modern individuals experienced their routine and spiritual lives. By examining Stonley’s everyday experiences, this chapter shows that life-cycle events and religious practices were not separate from, but rather deeply integrated within quotidian working life. Stonley’s diaries are peppered with references to religious and life-cycle events, including childbirth, deaths, burials, baptisms and weddings. The three surviving volumes of Stonley’s diaries date from the 1580s and 1590s, and they provide a detailed account of daily life in London and Essex in the late sixteenth century. This chapter examines the diaries as an important resource for scholars of the late sixteenth century. Drawing on anthropological methods of analysis and interpretation, it demonstrates how analysing archival sources for details of everyday life can enable a more nuanced understanding of how early modern individuals experienced the life-cycle events which took place within their social networks.