Sentences with phrase «prayer book»
A "prayer book" is a book that contains prayers and religious texts that people use to guide their worship and communication with a higher power. Full definition
If one is sensitive to tone, reading many of the hip prayer books of the past ten years is disturbing.
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Not long ago, and I'm sure you remember it as if it were yesterday, I wrote about my search for the perfect prayer book.
WLQ misfires in England include the defeats of the Church of England Prayer Book in 1927 — 1928 and four votes on hospital and higher education funding in 2003 — 2004.
American artist Spencer Finch (b. 1962) has created a large - scale, site - specific installation at the Morgan inspired by its great collection of medieval Books of Hours — beautiful, hand - painted works that served as personal prayer books for different times of the day and different periods of the year.
Haggerty writes, passivity toward God is not primarily a matter of refusing to engage any thoughts that come during prayer, as most contemplative prayer books say.
The British government's blocked the export of a golden jewel - encrusted prayer book which once belonged... More
It is the total personhood — with «all things appertaining to the perfection of [humankind's] nature,» as Article IV of the Thirty - nine Articles of Religion in the Anglican prayer book puts it — that has been raised in Christ, and hence it is the total human existence that will be raised for anyone who is «in Christ.»
If Teasdale could sample such smudges in devotional prayer books used heavily by one person, he predicts that «the main user's original DNA could be retrievable.»
The illuminated manuscript was from a Christian prayer book called the Book of Hours, prominent in the Middle Ages.
Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the dead at the end of time.
Some prayers in the Jewish Prayer Book begin, «Our Father, our King.»
It is only recently that the Church of England prayer book removed the service for the «churching of women who had recently given birth» which starts by giving thanks to God for:
As a convert to Roman Catholicism from old Prayer Book and High Church Anglicanism, I resolved to tolerate the current translation of the Novus Ordo (the Latin Mass as revised after Vatican II) because it was the Church's, not because it was edifying or beautiful.
The British government's blocked the export of a golden jewel - encrusted prayer book which once belonged to a king of France in the hope a museum can raise enough money to buy it.
They stressed Episcopal Prayer Book worship, the sacraments of the Church, and urged the necessity of ordination only by bishops, who were supposed to stand in line that went back to the apostles.
Drawing on a tradition of printed prayer books and literary texts that stretches back over centuries, she has woven streams of paper cut from a woodblock - printed book into five separate three - dimensional scrolls.
The professor, who teaches at Sweden's Lund University, went straight to the authorities when he became suspicious about the provenance of a 16th - century prayer book he had purchased online.
A popular Christian devotional item in the Middle Ages, this particular prayer book belonged to Francois I of France.
Dormition Abbey has been vandalised before in 2012 and 2013, and in 2014 a demonstrator set fire to one of the abbey's prayer books after Pope Francis celebrated a Mass there.
From carefully chosen prayer books and collecting flowers to put in front of statues, to trips to Aylesford Priory and quiet early morning Masses on holiday, the love of God was woven into the fabric of their everyday lives.
Making Christianity African went no further than amending western Prayer Books and Canon Laws, replacing prayers for the Queen with those for the President.
The Episcopalians have used the so - odd - volume Prayer Book Studies series as a means of informing clergy and laypeople as to the reasons for changes and of instructing them on how to make the most effective use of the revised liturgies.
The English Prayer Book perpetuated this rendering, which is still used in many churches.
As Simintov blows dust off some of his numerous prayer books, it's a reminder that years ago at this synagogue there was a definite need for more than one.
Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»
«many prayer books are awful,» she wrote in 1956, if you stick with the liturgy, you are safe» (p. 160).
Even as late as the 16th century, the future Edward VI of England received confirmation a few days after birth; soon thereafter, the first prayer book of his reign mandated knowledge of the catechism as requisite for confirmation.
During Lent last spring, I picked up this community prayer book.
A Little Prayer Book was intended for personal use, to take the place of many similar works which, however, were «puffed up with promises of Indulgences.»
Open an old Catholic prayer book and it's more than likely that you'll find it crammed with various prayer - cards.
A St Paul Prayer Book Family Publications, 48pp, # 4.50 The Greatest of these is Love.
Kate Dickie who plays Katherine became really obsessed with that Puritan prayer book.
«These people just don't deal in any book; they sell school texts which are on high demand as well as church prayer books, to unsuspecting buyers,» Jjemba said.
One part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Padre Pio is an essential for any Christian.
Every prisoner is provided a prayer mat, prayer beads, oil, Koran, Islamic prayer book and access to a Muslim chaplain (who is American).
From miniature illuminated prayer books in seventeenth century Europe to objects crafted from precious jade, lacquer, wood or porcelain in the Chinese Ming and Qing dynasties, small suggests special.
Select highlights include: Dr Jörn Günther's sale of a rare prayer book The De Croix Hours for EUR 3.5 million; Donald Ellis Gallery's Kodak Madonna, a prehistoric Inuit ivory figure (asking price USD 1.2 million); and Johnny van Haeften's painting by Gerard Terborch, The Card Players, in the region of GBP 2.5 million, within the first hours of the fair.
In his upcoming exhibition @ CJG, Ebtekar will bring all threads of his practice together, showing his epic paintings and drawings on mounted prayer book pages, his series involving re-mythologized Persian women, and a newly constructed installation piece (s).