Sentences with phrase «as prayer beads»

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Religion News Service: Man spends 12 months practicing 12 different religions, and finds peace at year's end Andrew Bowen sat yoga - style in his armchair, absent - mindedly fingering a set of Muslim prayer beads in his left hand as he talked about 2011 - his year of conversion.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

Others forms of meditation e.g. mouthing RCC Mass prayers, saying rosaries / prayer beads, staring at walls cross-legged, statues or cows, drinking beer et al are, although some being enjoyable, are still a waste of time and sometimes dangerous as in saying a rosary while driving.

items of spiritual significance, such as prayer cards or rosary beads (again, to place near the bedside, not in bed with baby)

You will also learn how to hold and work with a mala (prayer beads) as a meditative tool for your practice.

By Thidarat, this elegant necklace is designed as Thai prayer beads.

Each bead on the rosary can be moved as the prayer is said to reveal a colour.

Exorcists are known for their typical exorcism tools such as a cross, a Bible, maybe some prayer beads and ancient incantations but these guys are different.

Similar to good - luck charms, the amulets are composed of «fetishes» or things collected in the streets to make art works that may have spiritual or cultural meaning such as horse tails, sandals, mirrors, prayer beads, small bottles, and CDs.

Crystal Ball (1999), a spherical flask filled with saline solution surrounded by an organic cage made of abacus and prayer beads, and Crystal Landscape of Inner Body (2000), made of pieces of clear blown glass shaped as internal organs, also address opposing approaches in Eastern and Western medicine.