I remember on the day before our first hearing my family was gathered in a circle
praying prayers of thanksgiving & asking for God to take charge of the whole process.
Not exact matches
There is Steven who was stoned and St. Peter who was crucified, There is Oscar Romero with the eucharistic
prayer of thanksgiving still issuing from his mouth; Dietrich Bonhoeffer, triumphant over the Nazi gallows; Martin Luther King Jr. still
praying that his dream will come true for humanity; Sudanese Christian boys gunned down in their villages by Muslim fanatics.
The man who considered
prayer «the Church's banquet» and an «engine against th «Almighty» provides in these pages an example
of how to
pray unceasingly; intercession, praise, and
thanksgiving are always on the parson's lips.
This brief survey
of the Biblical
prayers of thanksgiving suggests the place that gratitude ought to have in our own
praying.