It is at this time that we should imitate the Pilgrims by accompanying our prayers of thanks with the conviction that we shall continue to be in dire need for the Lord's protection in the future, if we are to have peace ; ;

Examples of prayer which are unique to Luke include Jesus's prayers at the time of his baptism (), his praying all night before choosing the twelve (), and praying for the transfiguration ().

Many of his writings, prayers and letters are extant, and his discourses with the Western Bahá ' ís emphasize the growth of the faith by the late 1890s.

In Saudi Arabia, all businesses except hospitals are made to close during Islamic prayers, held five times daily.

Pilgrimages to holy wells are traditional at this time, and offerings and prayers to the spirits or deities of the wells are usually part of this practice.

The collects come at the close of the office and are short prayers summing up the supplications of the congregation.

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

Such prayers are often appreciative ( that is, " Thank you for ...") rather than supplicative ( that is, " Please God grant me ...").

: Hecuba :... O Zeus, whether you are the Law of Necessity in nature, or the Law of Reason in man, hear my prayers.

You declaim bitterly against the luxury of priests, the ambition of bishops, the tyranny of the Roman Pontiff, and the babbling of the sophists ; against our prayers, fasts, and Masses ; and you are not content to retrench the abuses that may be in these things, but must needs abolish them entirely ... Look around on this ‘ Evangelical ’ generation, and observe whether amongst them less indulgence is given to luxury, lust, or avarice, than amongst those whom you so detest.

I will show you a great many who have become worse through following it .... The solemn prayers of the Church are abolished, but now there are very many who never pray at all .... I have never entered their conventicles, but I have sometimes seen them returning from their sermons, the countenances of all of them displaying rage, and wonderful ferocity, as though they were animated by the evil spirit .... Who ever beheld in their meetings any one of them shedding tears, smiting his breast, or grieving for his sins ?...

The earliest extant samples of connected ( north ) Estonian are the so-called Kullamaa prayers dating from 1524 and 1528.

Salat consists of five daily prayers according to the Sunna ; the names are according to the prayer times: Fajr ( morning dawn ), Zuhr ( noon ), Asr ( afternoon ), Maghrib ( after-sunset ), and ' Isha ' ( late evening, night ).

All of these prayers are recited while facing the Ka ' bah in Mecca.

A number of prayers, and about thirty of the canons of the Armenian Church are ascribed to Gregory the Illuminator.

After the Little Entrance, the arch-priest and arch-deacon conduct the bishop-elect before the Royal Gates where he is met by the bishops and kneels before the altar on both knees and the Gospel Book is laid over his head and the consecrating bishops lay their hands upon the Gospel Book, while the prayers of ordination are read by the eldest bishop ; after this, the newly consecrated bishop ascends the synthranon ( bishop's throne in the sanctuary ) for the first time.

Invocations and prayers are only permissible when they are directed towards the supreme God ..

When such reports are verified by the Orthodox hierarchy, they are understood as miracles performed by God through the prayers of the saint, rather than being magical properties of the painted wood itself.

In every day terms, the imam for Sunni Muslims is the one who leads Islamic formal ( Fard ) prayers, even in locations besides the mosque, whenever prayers are done in a group of two or more with one person leading ( imam ) and the others follow by copying his ritual actions of worship.

Women may not lead prayers other than if it is an all female group ( among native Muslims in China ( Hui ), women have traditionally been trained as, and practice, the role of imam among female-only congregations ; these are often the wives of imams ( see Nusi )).

# Mincha or Minha ( מ ִ נ ְ ח ָ ה ), the afternoon prayers named for the flour offering that accompanied sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem,

These labyrinths may have originated as symbolic allusion to the Holy City ; and some modern thinkers have theorized that prayers and devotions may have accompanied the perambulation of their intricate paths.

The burning of the log is accompanied by prayers to God so that the coming year may bring much happiness, love, luck, riches, and food.

At Midsummer, the Manx people offer bundles of reeds, meadow grasses and yellow flowers to Manannán in a ritual " paying of the rent ", accompanied with prayers for his aid and protection in and fishing.

A common Ashkenazi custom is to save the etrog until Tu Bishvat and eat it in candied form or as succade, accompanied by prayers that the worshiper will merit a beautiful etrog next Sukkot.

Then an offering of cakes accompanied by specific prayers and ceremonies ensues ( involving the use of the mandraculum, white linen cloth wrapping the right hand of the officiant ): special attention is given to Fisus Sancius, patron of the citadel ( ocre Fisia ).

Sacrifice of three boars to Çerfios Martios at the Fontuli, accompanied by the prayers used at the Trebulan gate.

As these types of personal prayers within the Mass spread, the institution of the Low Mass became quite common, where priests would hire their services out to perform various Masses for the needs of their clients — such as blessing crops or cattle, achieving success in some enterprise, obtaining love, or cursing enemies ( one way this latter was done was by inserting the enemy's name in a Mass for the dead, accompanied by burying an image of the enemy ).

In Orthodox and Conservative synagogues, the hakafot are accompanied by traditional chants, including biblical and liturgical verses and songs about the Torah, the goodness of God, Messianic yearnings, and prayers for the restoration of the House of David and the Temple in Jerusalem.

Community celebrations are usually accompanied by various songs and prayers.

Beginning with the First Sunday of Advent, the lighting of a candle can be accompanied by a Bible reading and prayers.

These two aforementioned practices are sometimes accompanied by special prayers or incantations.

* Canonical hours or liturgical hours, divisions of the day which are accompanied by prayers from the liturgy of the hours

When the Ottoman army went to war, dervishes and minstrels accompanied it to provide religious prayers and entertainment.

Aldhun, Bishop of Chester-le-Street and leader of the order decreed an holy fast of three days, accompanied by prayers to the saint.

Until 1908, even in sung Mass the choir began the Introit only after the priest had begun those prayers, but Pope Pius X restored the old arrangement whereby the Introit accompanied the entrance procession of the priest with the ministers.

They all involve the entry of the clergy, vesting and preparing the Gifts of bread and wine, accompanied by appropriate prayers.

Very early were the processions accompanied by hymns and prayers, known as litaniae, rogationes or supplicationes.

This washing may be accompanied by prayers.

The clergy will also wash their hands after receiving Holy Communion, but this is not accompanied by special prayers.

The chaplet may also be said without beads, usually by counting prayers on the fingertips, and may be accompanied by the veneration of the Divine Mercy image.

# Repetition of several different prayers in some pattern, possibly interspersed with or accompanied by meditations.

The prayers are accompanied by meditation on the Mysteries, events in the life and ministry of Jesus.

The entire dialogue of the ritual was intoned or sung by the priests, and these prayers were always accompanied by instrumentation ().