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 ().

There is also a fountain ( şadırvan ) where worshipers can perform ritual ablutions before prayer ; the dome over the şadırvan is capped by a skylight which creates a soft, serene light below ; thus playing an important role in the illumination of the large building.

In both cases, the text used is not only taken from a Greek addition, the readings also are the prayer of Mordecai, and nothing of Esther's own words is ever used.

" Societies meet approximately every other Friday for entertainment and fellowship and on almost all Sunday mornings for Sunday School ; societies also hold a weekly prayer meeting.

Cranmer's work of simplification and revision was also applied to the Daily Offices, which were to become Morning, and Evening Prayer ; and which he hoped would also serve as a daily form of prayer to be used by the Laity, thus replacing both the late medieval lay observation of the Latin Hours of the Virgin, and its English equivalent, the Primer.

Churches also hold a one-hour Wednesday evening testimony meeting, with similar readings, after which, those in attendance are invited to share accounts of healing through prayer.

The Church of Finland also allows prayer for same-sex couples.

Individuals could also interact with the gods for their own purposes, appealing for their help through prayer or compelling them to act through magic.

A novena prayer to St. Francis Xavier is also held before the Mass generally.

" Reciting this statement is obligatory in daily prayer ( salāh ) as well as on other occasions ; it is also a key part in a person's conversion to Islam.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba also called the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ); performing the prayer or Salat is one of the five pillars of Islam.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Under Imam Abu Hanifa, the witr prayer was considered to be compulsory and the Hanafis also differed with other sects in relation to methods of taking ablution, prayers and payment of tithe or zakat.

Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart ; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him ; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his.

This account also has a special emphasis on prayer, the activity of the Holy Spirit, women, and joyfulness.

It is a psalm that is prescribed for Christmas Day and also to be read at morning prayer on the fourth day of the month.

He taught them that true Divine service consisted of not only religious scholarship, but also a sincere love of God combined with warm faith and belief in the efficacy of prayer ; that the ordinary person filled with a sincere belief in God, and whose prayers come from the heart, is more acceptable to God than someone versed in and fully observant of Jewish law who lacks inspiration in his divine service.

As people are also made in God's images, people are also considered to be living icons, and are therefore " censed " along with painted icons during Orthodox prayer services.

* Navkar Mantra also known as Namaskar Mantra is the fundamental prayer in Jainism and can be recited at any time.

Every day most Jains bow and say their universal prayer, the Navakar Mantra which is also known variously as Panch Parmesthi Sutra, Panch Namaskar Sutra.

Early in its development, Anglicanism developed a vernacular prayer book, called the Book of Common Prayer.

In the Greek Church the sacrament is called Euchelaion ( Greek Εὐχέλαιον, from εὐχή, " prayer ", and ἔλαιον, " oil ").

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

The Diocese of Sydney has developed its own small prayer book, called Sunday Services, to supplement the existing prayer book and preserve the original theology, which the Sydney diocese asserts has been changed.

Within the latter, the actual Eucharistic prayer is called the anaphora, literally: " offering " or " carrying up " ().

This process is called theosis, or deification, and is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person strives to both become more holy through the imitation of Christ and cultivation of the inner life through unceasing prayer ( most famously, the Jesus Prayer ) or hesychasm, until united at death with the fire of God's love.

Muslims must wash themselves before prayer, this washing is called wudū ' (" purification ").

This ceremony is followed by Sahaj Paath Bhog, Kirtan Sohila, night time prayer is recited 1 week and finally Ardas called the " Antim Ardas " (" Final Prayer ") is offered the last week.

In prayer and meditation he came to a greater understanding of the nature of his faith and what it required from him ; this process he called " opening ".

Communal prayer requires a quorum of ten adult Jews, called a minyan.

The final prayer service, called " Ne ' ilah ", ends with a long blast of the shofar.

The core of festival and Shabbat prayer services is the public reading of the Torah, along with connected readings from the other books of the Tanakh, called Haftarah.

A traditional Aramaic prayer called Kol Nidre (" All Vows ") is traditionally recited just before sunset.

" And this food is called among us Εὐχαριστία Eucharist ... For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these ; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh .”

The Lord's Prayer ( also called the Pater Noster or Our Father ) is a central prayer in Christianity.

The common area of performance is found in a " social phenomenon called litany ," a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications.

Hypostyle prayer hall in the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also called the Mosque of Uqba

Mormons also perform other ordinances, which include naming and blessing children, giving priesthood blessings and patriarchal blessings, anointing and blessing the sick, participating in prayer circles, and setting apart individuals who are called to church positions.

Other questions studied in the philosophy of religion include what, if anything, would give us good reason to believe that a miracle has occurred, what is the relationship between faith and reason, what is the relationship between morality and religion, what is the status of religious language, and does petitionary prayer ( sometimes still called impetratory prayer ) make sense?

During Islamic prayer, a kneeling bow called sajdah is used, with forehead, nose, hands, knees, and toes all touching the ground.

The poor fellow who has no such luck, but on whose face creeps slowly and surely the paleness of Death, the gradual knowledge that the Light of Life is fast waning and soon shall dawn a new light ; but e ’ er it shines, a faint prayer is whispered: " God bless those at home!

You cry: ` Death to America ,` and before long, Allah willing, the prayer for the dead will be recited over it.