and it is evidenced in the prayers offered, in the frequent religious allusions, and in the confirmation of points on religious grounds.

Sacrifices and prayers on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana formed the culmination of the Secular Games, held in 17 BCE to celebrate the dawn of a new era.

The medieval parish church of Gunsbach was shared by the Protestant and Catholic congregations, which held their prayers in different areas at different times on Sundays.

Acts also features an emphasis on prayer and includes a number of notable prayers such as the Believers ' Prayer (), Stephen's death prayer (), and Simon Magus ' prayer ().

If the candidate relies on sponsors, the celebrant asks them if they will raise the child in " the Christian faith and life " ( ECUSA BCP ), and will raise the child through " prayers and witness to grow into the full stature of Christ " to which the parents will state to each, " I will, with God's help.

In Tahrir Square, Cairo, on Wednesday 2 February 2011, Coptic Christians joined hands to provide a protective cordon around their Muslim neighbors during salah ( prayers ) in the midst of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

# Ardas – Sikhs conclude their prayers by doing the Ardas and invoking God's blessings on everyone – not just on Sikhs.

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.

The Qur ' an gives clear instruction on many issues, such as how to perform the ritual purification before the obligatory daily prayers, but on other issues, some Muslims believe the Qur ' an alone is not enough to make things clear.

For example the Qur ' an states one needs to engage in daily prayers and fast during the month of Ramadan but some Muslims believe they need further instructions on how to perform these duties.

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.

Many abbots and abbesses asked her for prayers and opinions on various matters.

Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas ( 1 November ), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls ' Day ( 2 November ).

Traditionally, Jews recite prayers three times daily, Shacharit, Mincha, and Ma ' ariv with a fourth prayer, Mussaf added on Shabbat and holidays.

Many of these groups have developed differences in their prayers, traditions and accepted canons ; however these distinctions are mainly the result of their being formed at some cultural distance from normative ( rabbinic ) Judaism, rather than based on any doctrinal dispute.

During the month of Elul that precedes Rosh Hashanah, additional penitential prayers called Selichot are added to the daily prayers, except on Shabbat.

During one of these prayers, the Christ on the cross is said to have spoken to her.

Prayer shawls, or shawls in which the crafter meditates or says prayers of their faith while knitting with the intent on comforting the recipient, are donated to those experiencing loss or stress.

Within that part, the chapter on Viaticum is followed by two more chapters, one on Commendation of the Dying, with short texts, mainly from the Bible, a special form of the litany of the saints, and other prayers, and the other on Prayers for the Dead.

Two highlights of the morning prayers in traditional synagogues are the recitation of Yizkor, the prayer of remembrance, and of liturgical poems ( piyyutim ) describing the temple service of Yom Kippur.

Many married men wear a kittel, a white robe-like garment for evening prayers on Yom Kippur, otherwise used by males on their wedding day.

Specifically, the Avodah (" service ") in the Musaf prayer recounts in great detail the sacrificial ceremonies of the Yom Kippur Korbanot ( sacrificial offerings ) that are recited in the prayers but have not been performed for 2, 000 years, since the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.

It is blown in synagogues to mark the end of the fast at Yom Kippur, and blown at four particular occasions in the prayers on Rosh Hashanah.

The tallit is worn over the outer clothes during the morning prayers ( Shacharit ) and worn during all prayers on Yom Kippur.

Kol Nidrei is not a prayer, it makes no requests and is not addressed to God, rather, it is a juristic declaration before the Yom Kippur prayers begin.

Mohammed admired them as monotheists and saw them as natural adherents to the new faith and Jewish practices helped model early Islamic behavior, such as midday prayer, prayers on Friday, Ramadan fasting ( modelled after the Jewish Yom Kippur fast on the tenth of the month of Tishrei ), and most famously the fact that until 623 Muslims prayed toward Jerusalem, not Mecca.

Return to the Land of Israel is a recurring theme in Jewish prayers recited every day, three times a day, and holiday services on Passover and Yom Kippur traditionally conclude with the words " Next year in Jerusalem.

Many large state gatherings of the State of Israel take place at the Western Wall today, including the official swearing-in of various Israel army officers units, national ceremonies such as memorial services for fallen Israeli soldiers on Yom Hazikaron, huge celebrations on Yom Ha ' atzmaut ( Israel Independence Day ), huge gatherings of tens of thousands on Jewish religious holidays, and ongoing daily prayers by regular attendees.

Some Modern Orthodox prayerbooks suggest prayers or psalms to be said on Yom HaShoah.

The blessing over the wine is said, as well as the prayer separating the holy from the everyday, but not the prayers over the havdalah candle or the spices ( though the prayer over the havdalah candle is recited at the conclusion of Yom Kippur ).

For example, the traditional Yom Kippur liturgy contains repeated prayers for the restoration of sacrifices and every High Holiday Amidah contains Isaiah 56: 7:

In modern Orthodox Judaism, there is a widespread minhag for the laity including men to immerse themselves on the day prior to Yom Kippur and often do so before the three pilgrimage festivals, and before Rosh Hashanah ; some Haredi Jews additionally immerse themselves at least before a Shabbat, and some Hasidic Jews do so daily before morning prayers.

Several prayers are erroneously attributed to Judah ; e. g., Zunz wrongly ascribes to him the alphabetical teḥinnah Ezkera Yom Moti.

The most famous of these " supplicatory " prayers is Avinu Malkeinu, which is recited during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgies.

The Commission again reaffirmed the status quo, while placing certain restrictions on activities, including forbidding Jews from conducting the Yom Kippur prayers, which involved the blowing of the Shofar, and Muslims from carrying out the Zikr ceremony ( the playing of music ) close to the wall or to cause annoyance to the Jews.

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 ).

The following day, prayers are held from morning to evening.

A Tallit ( four-cornered prayer shawl ) is donned for evening prayers ; the only evening service of the year in which this is done.

According to the Talmud, prayer is a Biblical commandment and the Talmud gives two reasons why there are three basic prayers: to recall the daily sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem, and / or because each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer: Abraham the morning, Isaac the afternoon and Jacob the evening.

# According to Rabbi Jose b. Hanina, each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer: Abraham the morning, Isaac the afternoon and Jacob the evening prayers.

Three prayers written by Meher Baba, " O Parvardigar ", the " Prayer of Repentance " and the " Beloved God Prayer ," are recited morning and evening at his samadhi in India and are often recited at gatherings.

The reason was that every king had to say 104 prayers every morning and every evening.

There are morning and evening prayers, graces said over meals, and reverent physical gestures.

Sikhs recommend five prayers in the morning between 1 and 6 am ( the five prayers can be said in succession within one hour for the well-versed ): Japji, Anand Sahib, Jaap Sahib, Tav-Prasad Savaiye, Chaupai and Ardas ; one prayer in the evening from 5 to 7 pm: Rehras and Ardas ; and one before sleeping, around 8 to 10 pm: Kirtan Sohila and Ardas.

Prayer services begin with the Kol Nidrei prayer, which must be recited before sunset, and continue with the evening prayers ( Ma ' ariv or Arvith ), which includes an extended Selichot service.

" They hear Suzuki offstage, saying her evening prayers.

The Talmud stresses the thrasonical Goliath's ungodliness: his taunts before the Israelites included the boast that it was he who had captured the Ark of the Covenant and brought it to the temple of Dagon ; and his challenges to combat were made at morning and evening in order to disturb the Israelites in their prayers.

Some houses, on the discretion of the House Master, may observe a second Quiet Hour after prayers in the evening.

The work day was six hours, interrupted by dinner ( lunch ) around 11: 00 a. m. and a two-hour siesta, and ended with evening prayers and the rosary, supper, and social activities.

While most Jews could not regularly attend the Temple service, they could meet at the synagogue for morning, afternoon and evening prayers.

According to the Mishnah and Talmud, the Men of the Great Assembly instituted the requirement that Jews both in Judea and in the diaspora pray three times a day ( morning, afternoon and evening ), and include in their prayers a recitation of these passages in the morning (" Shacharit ") and evening (" Ma ' ariv ") prayers.

Following evening prayers, Angel discusses his marriage prospects with his father.

One of the poems, Vespers – which describes young Christoper Robin saying his evening prayers – was said by Christopher Milne as " the one work that has brought me over the years more toe-curling, fist-clenching, lip-biting embarrassment than any other ".