Sentences with phrase «of public prayer»

Supreme Court of Canada reserves decision on practice of public prayer before meetings, Toronto Star

How often do the words of our public prayer direct folk away from the crucified God to an anonymous Supreme Being, to the tribal deity of our institution or our nation, to the totem of our status quo?

In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itself.

What is wrong with tolerating a few minutes of public prayer on this, the 10th anniversary.

However, the verse is no ban of public prayer.

No... instead, any sort of public prayer is not permitted in schools.

The virgin's recitation of the public prayer of the Church, even when prayed privately, unites her to the whole Body of Christ with whom she joins in the prayer of Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit.

Jesus warned us: «Beware of practicing your piety before other people in order to be seen by them» — an admonition that applied to all forms of publicized giving, all forms of public prayer, all forms of shared self - reproach.

Not exact matches

A notable outburst came in 2010 when she linked public Muslim prayers in the streets with World War II and said it was «an occupation of sections of the territory.»

The president did not address the issue in his public remarks, focusing instead on the power of prayer as a centerpiece of American life.

If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

Officious social engineers of both the right and the left abuse the public schools to promote parochial agendas, whether by sanctioning the recitation of prayers over the school loudspeaker or by the distribution of contraceptives despite parental objections, thereby undermining parental authority and impairing the ability of parents to form their own family values.

The coalition then crafted questions to determine where the politicians stack up when it comes to, say, their stances on faith - based initiatives, public prayer and support of the word «God» in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

Vatican City (CNN)-- Pope Benedict XVI delivered his final public prayer ceremony Sunday to a crowd of thousands at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

Here's what actually happened... The liberal courts decided that prayer and any mention of God is not welcome in public schools.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

On the question of secularism and the Supreme Court's decisions on prayer and other religious activities in the public schools: No doubt these decisions, which repudiated both history and the wishes of parents and state legislators alike, played a significant role in the acceleration of what Richard John Neuhaus later dubbed the «naked public square.»

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

The government's display of the creche in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»

Today, the Supreme Court finally weighed in on the hotly debated Town of Greece VS. Galloway case, determining that public meetings can start with «religion specific - prayer» (i.e. «In Jesus» name...»).

Their inaugurations and other ceremonies should be as bereft of Bibles and prayers and clergy as they wish to make our public schools.

Keep you mindless prayers out of my public space.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

The leader of 1.2 billion Catholics around the globe will leave his seat at the ornate Apostolic Palace and retire to a former gardener's house at the Vatican to lead a life of prayer, likely removed entirely from public life.

The Day of Prayer for the Media is not limited to journalists but including writers, editors, film, public relations, advertising and graphic designers.

@SeanNJ, I would think the meetings would primarily be about educating the public on the separation of church and state and opposing religious encroachment on the public / government arena, e.g. creationism / ID in the science classroom, ten commandments displays in government buildings, school sanctioned prayer or religious activities.

«During early adulthood, about half of Boomers (51 %) and Gen Xers (54 %) said they approved of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that banned the required reading of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools; 56 % of Millennials took this view in 2008.»

Did you ever hear of Christians trying to get prayer into the public schools?

We should not underestimate the capacity for public inscriptions to be unnoticed after their initial construction even by those that lived their lives surrounded by them (it is indicative of this that in the process of destroying Alexandrian Jewish prayer halls (39 CE), a mob of gentiles seeking to promote the worship of Caligula actually destroyed dedications to previous emperors).

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

God is famous in the family dinners and protest marches, in the re-reading of a favourite book to small children and in Wednesday night Bible studies open to the public, in the prayers of the unknown and the faith of the uncelebrated.

Those destructions left deep wounds and prompted the adoption of many customs of public mourning, such as memorial prayers on the major festivals (yizkor) and the commemoration of the anniversary of a death (yahrzeit), that are observed to this day.

In this theater almsgiving is rewarded by trumpet fanfare, prayer is a public parade, and the discomfort of fasting is a spectacle.

That's your «freedom of religion», but not one student at their graduation should have to feel excluded and that's exactly what public prayer at a tax payer event is doing.

again, if they wanted to have prayer, they should have scheduled it before or after the graduation as most public schools will allow this for students of any faith.

Less than 23 % of Americans told pollsters at Fairleigh Dickinson University that they dislike prayers at public government meetings.

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

So, the justice suggests, as long prayers at public meetings don't fall into a pattern of proselytizing, denigrating nonbelievers or threatening damnation, what's the problem?

Public prayer matters differently — and urgently - outside those sites of worship where it is acknowledged to be essential business.

Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»

70 % of Americans support public prayer in schools... that alone makes people laugh in the developed world.

When we think of religious liberty, the concept usually revolves around matters like whether the government can allow prayers at public events.

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.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

Or, most recently, you might have heard the rumor from Bryan Fischer, from Mike Hucakbee or a friend on Facebook, saying that God abandoned the children at Sandy Hook because, though children have every right to pray in public schools, those schools can not sponsor prayer events out of deference to religious freedom.

It is the duty of the Caliph or Imam, the leader in Islam, to consolidate public opinion, execute judgments, administer state machinery, encourage the faithful in the practice of their faith, such as prayers and the religious tax, and look after affairs of public interest with the guidance of a parliamentary democracy, the basis of government in Islam.

and second, the approach to God by way of animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the sacrifices were always accompanied by supplications, they had competed with personal prayer, had furnished for many people a public substitute for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion with the lament «We have nothing to bring but prayer.»

Moreover, the poignancy of the sense of public guilt was reflected in private self - accusation, and the issue is seen in such prayers as the psalmist's confession of deep - seated sinfulness,