diff --git a/website/package.json b/website/package.json
index 8a233939d7..e050e3271f 100644
--- a/website/package.json
+++ b/website/package.json
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
     "sails-hook-organics": "^2.2.2",
     "sails-hook-orm": "^4.0.2",
     "sails-hook-sockets": "^3.0.0",
-    "sails-postgresql": "^5.0.0",
-    "yaml": "1.10.2"
+    "sails-postgresql": "^5.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "eslint": "5.16.0",
@@ -24,7 +23,8 @@
     "htmlhint": "0.11.0",
     "lesshint": "6.3.6",
     "marked": "4.0.10",
-    "sails-hook-grunt": "^4.0.0"
+    "sails-hook-grunt": "^4.0.0",
+    "yaml": "1.10.2"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "custom-tests": "echo \"(No other custom tests yet.)\" && echo",
diff --git a/website/scripts/create-issues-for-todays-rituals.js b/website/scripts/create-issues-for-todays-rituals.js
index cc71a58dd6..9faf00bca1 100644
--- a/website/scripts/create-issues-for-todays-rituals.js
+++ b/website/scripts/create-issues-for-todays-rituals.js
@@ -13,33 +13,17 @@ module.exports = {
 
   fn: async function ({ dry }) {
 
-    let path = require('path');
-    let YAML = require('yaml');
-    let topLvlRepoPath = path.resolve(sails.config.appPath, '../');
+    if (!_.isObject(sails.config.builtStaticContent) || !_.isObject(sails.config.builtStaticContent.rituals)) {
+      throw new Error('Missing, incomplete, or invalid configuration. Could not create issues for todays rituals, please try running `sails run build-static-content` and try running this script again.');
+    }
+
     let baseHeaders = {// (for github api)
       'User-Agent': 'Fleetie pie',
       'Authorization': `token ${sails.config.custom.githubAccessToken}`
     };
 
-    // Find all the files in the top level /handbook folder and it's sub-folders
-    let FILES_IN_HANDBOOK_FOLDER = await sails.helpers.fs.ls.with({
-      dir: path.join(topLvlRepoPath, '/handbook'),
-      depth: 3
-    });
-    // Filter the list of filenames to get the rituals YAML files.
-    let ritualYamlPaths = FILES_IN_HANDBOOK_FOLDER.filter((filePath)=>{
-      return _.endsWith(filePath, 'rituals.yml');
-    });
-    for (let ritualSource of ritualYamlPaths) {
-      // Load rituals
-      let pathToRituals = path.resolve(topLvlRepoPath, ritualSource);
-      let rituals = [];
-      let ritualsYml = await sails.helpers.fs.read(pathToRituals);
-      try {
-        rituals = YAML.parse(ritualsYml, { prettyErrors: true });
-      } catch (err) {
-        throw new Error(`Could not parse the YAMl for rituals at ${pathToRituals} on line ${err.linePos.start.line}. To resolve, make sure the YAML is valid, and try again: ` + err.stack);
-      }
+    for (let ritualSource in sails.config.builtStaticContent.rituals) {
+      let rituals = sails.config.builtStaticContent.rituals[ritualSource];
       for (let ritual of rituals) {
         // For each ritual, we'll:
         //  - Convert the ritual's frequency into milliseconds.