Sentences with phrase «of prayer group»

She visits detainees and leads the apostleship of prayer group in taking radical options on certain political issues like boycotting sham elections.

The arrangements that went into the 1986 District of Columbia crusade were typical of the big rallies of the later years: 500,000 personal invitations issued, 400,000 packets of material mailed to area homes, thousands of prayer groups meeting regularly for months ahead, 4,000 workers trained to counsel with «inquirers,» another thousand prepared for follow - up work.

Not exact matches

The family of a Catholic US journalist beheaded by the militant group Islamic State in Iraq are asking for prayers.

Keep praying if it helps you sleep at night, but your prayers are just going to you or to the group of people you are praying with.

Since the people are grouped by their countries, very little or no politics are discussed as most of the people are very much dedicated to perform prayers.

As well as speeches there were also workshops where groups looked at specific aspects of tackling persecution, for example guidance on prayer (below).

Instead of wasting time with these frivolous lawsuits, I wish the American Atheists would take issue with employers who require all workers to participate in group prayer (as one of my former employers did) or landlords who «casually» ask about your religion before they will rent you an apartment (that's life in the Bible Belt, eh?).

«Each group must stick firmly to schedule or, as happened during one of my visits, a kind of backlog of devotion can build up: foot - tapping Armenians were stalled behind impatient Greeks as an overflow of Copts intoned their prayers in apparent obliviousness of the traffic jam.

If the prayer group in the experiment suddenly, in controvention of known medical timelines, demonstrated that they were as they were prior to the diesease, surgery, injury etc, and subsequent testing provides no evidence of anything other than a straight up non medical intervention based change in their biology, THEN the results might be remarkable.

It's not just pray and sit, although yes, there are some groups that believe that prayer does it all but that's not the belief of all people who believe in a god.

«The board will conduct its meeting in an atmosphere of prayer, contemplation and dialogue and will develop a plan to involve LCWR membership in similar processes,» the group said in a statement.

In many cases, it's appropriate to mark a person's departure in a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group setting.

Each day saw a programme of talks, discussion groups, prayer, music, sport, social activities, and candlelit prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

Yesterday, a group of Christian leaders that included writer and speaker Shane Claiborne was arrested in Washington during a prayer vigil demonstration.

For some homosexual persons, the effort to change can mean years of individual and group therapy, agonized prayers, suicidal depressions, and the constant fear of detection, loss of job and attack by straight men.

I know that most people in my worshiping community have never heard of these folks — they're too busy housing homeless folks, working with the Interfaith Food Shuttle, and practicing the Prayer of Examen in our small groups.

«Give me an example of a prayer that is acceptable to all of the groups that I mentioned,» said Alito, whose list included Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

Group led prayer is offensive and completely inappropriate at a business meeting for ALL of the the people.

I once heard a story of a Bible study group who decided to make a prayer list of all the people they «disliked» the most, and then pray for these people every week as part of the Bible study.

dvdrichards1115 And, yet, group prayers do serve as a means of identifying denominational and sectarian groups.

I think you should have the right ot counter it with a statement criticizing the idea of God and prayer in public meetings or schools or any gov» t led group meeting.

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermediate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed ailments on only six of them.

No longer interested merely in the destinies of corporate groups, God was conceived as caring for persons one by one, so that prayer was a transfiguring individual experience — «As he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered.»

Prayer in the smaller and still more intimate group of two or three friends who love and understand each other well enough to share all their other interests can be a doorway to blessedness.

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

What this means for us is prayer in solitude, prayer in the family or in a small group of friends, prayer at church.

Earth to Christendom: Every religious person and every religious group is free to commemorate Sept 11th with all the prayer and hymns and other forms of outward religiosity the event planners choose.

Hymn and prayer book of the second temple it may have been, but obviously some of the psalms could never have been sung in connection with the sacrifices, and may well be grouped, as Professor Julius Bewer suggests, under the caption, «Private Worship outside of the Temple.»

«Faith - based groups reacted to the terrorist leader's death with renewed sympathy for victims» families, scriptural citations justifying the demise of evil, and hopeful prayers for peace among the nations,» stated the RNA release.

On the basis of this belief there came to be a group of Wahhabis known as Compellers who considered it their religious duty to see that people performed the prayers at the prescribed times, basing their action on the injunction «to command the good and prohibit the bad.»

For ever since Pius Xll's Mediator Dei and also at the Second Vatican Council the liturgical prayer has been given such priority over the private prayer of individuals and groups that — despite papal warnings — one is easily tempted to think that private prayer is more or less superfluous, especially if we are as involved in our liturgical prayer as we ought to be.

My friend stopped worrying about spiritual inadequacy, however, when she heard that the prayer group had prayed for a set of color - coordinated kitchen appliances for one of its members, Yes, the appliances arrived at the member's home.

Indeed we may say, perhaps a little exaggeratedly but not without reason, the liturgy such as it is actually performed today — though, we hope, against its own ultimate principles — this liturgy itself increases this greater danger, because it often has a harmful influence on the private prayer of individuals and groups.

I remember a friend telling me about her sister - in - law who had found such a connection in a weekly prayer group, then became insufferable to the other members of the family «We just can't be spiritual enough for Evelyn,» my friend sighed.

For the private prayer of the Christian, whether of the individual or of a group, is no merely «private» affair with which the Church has nothing to do.

Perhaps the most popular of the English mystics today is Julian of Norwich (c. 1342 - c. 1413), partly because there are a number of contemplative prayer groups called Julian groups.

BTW, I wanted to mention, I really like the title «prayer from a cell» because of the different meanings of «cell»... imprisoned, small group of people, smallest living building block, etc..

a) There is a prayer of individuals and groups which is not liturgical prayer in the strict sense of the word.

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Our prayers are not on behalf of one group or congregation: they are the cry of the people of God for the places in which he has set them.

When speaking about the relation between liturgical and «private» prayer we should not forget that there is also a private prayer of groups (for example a family rosary or a devotion approved by the bishop) which may itself approach in various degrees to liturgical prayer, even to being virtually identical with it, so that there is only a verbal difference between the two.

That is supplied here, along with the sort of small - group experience of prayer and mutual concern needed to nourish heart and mind.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

When I grew up we did things like pray in school, said the pledge of allegiance and after prayer was banned, we had our fellowship groups.

Usually these prayers, whether in worship or personal devotions, include petitions for four overlapping groups of people: intimates and friends, public authorities, enemies and the needy.

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Yet Perry, who sponsors a day of prayer called The Response this August, has his bona fides with this group too.

We have experimented with the use of EEG in prayer (watching the brain waves to discern a rise in spiritual consciousness), the use of the consensor with prayer groups, and the impact of certain kinds of music as observable with biofeedback machines.

getting all bent out of shape when a student carries a Bible to school, or a group of students having prayer around the flag pole in the morning at school.