Sentences with phrase «looking prayer beads»

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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.

Wearing a cassock that looks like it's made of rain - soaked toilet paper, which will crumble at the slightest touch, he fingers a string of purple prayer beads.

I snagged a can of Misty Gray, thinking it would be perfect for spraying the prayer beads to give them the driftwood look I craved.