There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

The feeling of individual inferiority, defeat, or humilation growing out of various social situations or individual deficiencies or failures is compensated for by communion in worship or prayer with a friendly, but all-victorious Father-God, as well as by sympathetic fellowship with others who share this faith, and by opportunities in religious acts for giving vent to emotions and energies.

It takes many forms, this prayer, but in essence it is always a request for guidance, for open minds and gentle hearts, for honesty and sincerity, for the wisdom and the insights that will help Guideposts' readers.

This had the effect of inculcating the principle of lex orandi, lex credendi (" the law of prayer is the law of belief ") as the foundation of Anglican identity and confession.

# The Primates ' Meeting ( first met in 1979 ) is the most recent manifestation of international consultation and deliberation, having been first convened by Archbishop Donald Coggan as a forum for " leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation ".

The Roman Catholic celebration is associated with the doctrine that the souls of the faithful who at death have not been cleansed from the temporal punishment due to venial sins and from attachment to mortal sins cannot immediately attain the beatific vision in heaven, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the Mass.

While 2 November remained the liturgical celebration, in time the entire month of November became associated in the Western Catholic tradition with prayer for the departed ; lists of names of those to be remembered being placed in the proximity of the altar on which the sacrifice of the mass is offered.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

The following fragment of a hymn to Castor and Polydeuces ( the Dioscuri ) is possibly another example of this though some scholars interpret it instead as a prayer for a safe voyage.

Both books have a more prominent attention to prayer than is found in the other gospels.

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

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

The actual anointing of the sick person is done on the forehead, with the prayer " Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit ", and on the hands, with the prayer " May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up ".

The rite performed by them is thus seen as having the same by no means negligible value of any other form of prayer offered for the sick or dying.

An anthem is a form of church music, particularly in the service of the Church of England, in which it is appointed by the rubrics to follow the third collect at both morning and evening 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.

A tight communal timetable ( horarium ) is meant to ensure that the time given by God is not wasted but in whichever way necessary used in his service, whether for prayer, work, meals, spiritual reading, sleep.

According to the Bahá ' í teachings the human purpose is to learn to know and love God through such methods as prayer, reflection, and being of service to humankind.

It is derived from the washing of the bell with holy water by the bishop, before he anoints it with the oil of the infirm without and with chrism within ; a fuming censer is placed under it and the bishop prays that these sacramentals of the Church may, at the sound of the bell, put the demons to flight, protect from storms, and call the faithful to prayer.

The Oral Torah is the primary guide for Jews to abide by these terms, as expressed in tractate Gittin 60b, " the Holy One, Blessed be He, did not make His covenant with Israel except by virtue of the Oral Law " to help them learn how to live a holy life, and to bring holiness, peace and love into the world and into every part of life, so that life may be elevated to a high level of kedushah, originally through study and practice of the Torah, and since the destruction of the Second Temple, through prayer as expressed in tractate Sotah 49a " Since the destruction of the Temple, every day is more cursed than the preceding one ; and the existence of the world is assured only by the kedusha ... and the words spoken after the study of Torah.

The first church described in the city is a small building that was probably originally a small prayer house.

Miko kagura originally was a shamanic trance dance, but later, it became an art and was interpreted as a prayer dance.

It originally included " the prayer of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Archbishop of Washington in a Mass on September 12, 2001 for our Nation and the victims in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist hijackings and attacks in New York City, Washington, D. C., and Pennsylvania reminds all Americans that ' We must seek the guilty and not strike out against the innocent or we become like them who are without moral guidance or proper direction.

There is a wide variety of speculative theories about the origins of the synagogue ( in the sense of purpose-built spaces for worship, or rooms originally constructed for some other purpose but reserved for formal, communal prayer ), some of which date the origins as early as the eighth century BCE or the time of the Babylonian captivity ( sixth century BCE ).

The mosque was originally a small prayer house built by the Rashidun caliph Umar, but was rebuilt and expanded by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik and finished by his son al-Walid in 705 CE.

To a modern English speaker unaware of the origin of the distinction, the use of thou ( for example in prayer ), originally a sign of intimacy, now has connotations of formality due to its ceremonial character.

The " Philmont Grace " ( also known as the Worth Ranch Grace or simply the Wilderness Grace ) is a prayer recited before meals at many Boy Scout camps and events around the U. S. It was originally written in 1929 by A. J. Fulkerson, Camp Director at Worth Ranch Scout Camp in Palo Pinto County, Texas.

The coffin's footboard contains an Atenist prayer that was originally intended for a woman, but was later revised to a refer to a man – with enough grammatical errors to betray the gender of the original speaker.

The Latin inscription above the entrance " Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur " ( My house is called a house of prayer ) reminds of the prince-episcopalian chapel which was placed in the ground floor of the tower originally.

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer by the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

These chapels originally contained altars — they were screened off and intended for private prayer for members of the royal family — but their dedication is no longer known.

Extensive use is made of responsories between the celebrant ( priest ) and faithful during the Mozarabic Mass, including during the Confiteor ( prayer of confession of guilt for sin ), which is quite different from that in the Roman Rite ( Tridentine or post-Tridentine ); though much of the preparatory prayers and other elements in the old Missal were borrowed from a Romano-Toledan Missal and is not originally part of the rite.

The Seder Rav Amram was originally sent to the communities of Spain, in response to a request for guidance on the laws of prayer.

For example, the English word bead originally meant " prayer ".

It was at first applied to the office of Lauds, celebrated at dawn, but later became attached to the prayer originally offered, according to the fourth-century Apostolic Constitutions, at cock-crow.

This prayer is said by Jews ( more specifically, Bukharian Jews and originally coming from ancient Iran and no specific religion ) and Muslims as well as by Zoroastrians.

For singi-there are several theories, the two most widely circulated being that it is a Celtic word for circle, hence " round fort ", or it could be named after the Sings, a Thracian tribe that occupied the area prior to the arrival of the Scordisci .. Another possibility is that it is a composite name the first part of which ( Sin-gi ) means " Old prayer " (" sean gui " in Gaelic ), implying that this was originally site of Celtic religious significance, in addition to becoming a fortress ( dun ).

In the Southern Hemisphere, where January is a vacation time, churches often find other days to celebrate the week of prayer, for example around Pentecost ( as originally suggested by the Faith and Order movement in 1926, and Pope Leo XIII in 1894 ), which is also a symbolic date for the unity of the church.

A popular theory is that the doxology was originally appended to the prayer during congregational worship, as it is was standard for Jewish prayers to have such endings.

The Scola Spagnola of Venice was originally regarded as the " mother synagogue " for the Spanish and Portuguese community worldwide, as it was among the earliest to be established, and the first prayer book was published there.

It may be that the prayer was originally an expansion of the angelic cry recorded in Revelation 4: 8 ( sometimes called the Sanctus ).

The most common sequence is called Ruhi ( meaning: of the spirit ), which was originally developed in Colombia and currently consists of 7 courses, with the themes from the Bahá ' í writings of prayer, education, history, and more.