Sentences with phrase «prayer book which»

It is a prayer book which addresses 92 bothering problems.

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.

Not exact matches

Saint Augustine addressed to Him the beautiful prayer also recently revivified by Pope Benedict XVI, which can also summarize this book: «Grant what You command, and command what You will.»

He wrote in a letter: «As you will all know, I consider such an action to be a travesty of the rule of Christ, of the doctrine of the Book of Common Prayer, and therefore an abandonment of the principles of Anglican doctrine to which we have committed ourselves.»

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.

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

My prayers were answered: — God told me that he DOES NOT LIVE ON HIS OWN PLANET CALLED KOLOB — God told me that the Jesus Christ referred to in the Book o» Mormon is NOT that of Christianity, hence there is no Trinity — God told me that the Jews never cruised across the Atlantic in an air - tight submarine (which the Mormons believe are genetically tied to Native Americans).

The Christian public will applaud books in which every prayer is answered and every disease is healed, but to the degree those books do not reflect reality, they will become meaningless to a skeptical audience.

The 6 Emergent Leaders who gathered in Dallas, Texas while on a book tour stop and who «through hours of prayer and discernment» diagnosed me without ever saying a word to me, and came up with an «action plan,» which by the way, only he whom shall not be named was present for, and I was in Minnesota with the kids.

We always include poetry and a time called «Open Space» in which we slow down for prayer and other opportunities to actively engage the Gospel; writing in the community's Book of Thanks, writing prayers, making art or assembling bleach kits for the needle exchange in Denver.

I didn't know it at the time, but these new daily rhythms became a new way prayer for me, which became a book I wrote called Whispers of Rest.

When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.

Second in importance to the Qur» an is the book Brethren of Serenity, which they recite as part of their prayers.

The Yashts and minor texts combined, as they often are, form a kind of abridged Avesta or smaller Avesta, called the Khordah Avesta which serves as a book of prayers for laymen.

[However], there's the Book of Common Prayer which is our worship bookBook of Common Prayer which is our worship bookbook....

The English Prayer Book perpetuated this rendering, which is still used in many churches.

The prayers of the Church which have been used through the centuries, such as the English Book of Common Prayer, contain many moods but center in the adoration and praise which lie at the heart of worship.

Nowhere does it discuss the mysterious but willful destruction of the mighty poetic force of the Bible and Prayer Book, which has turned the thunder and trumpets of Anglican worship into a series of squeaks and squawks, accompanied by tambourines and guitars.

This is a cheerful, readable book which aims to encourage ordinary Catholic women with busy lives, with homes to run and children to raise, with responsibilities and with jobs and worries, to live in the presence of God and to make prayer part of their daily lives.

The Book of Common Prayer had this meaning in view when it employs, in the course of the Prayer of Consecration in the service of Holy Communion, the words: «Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Savior Jesus Christ, we, thy humble servants, do celebrate and make here, before thy Divine Majesty, with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.»

The differing Anglican Eucharistic theologies have become institutionalised in the Book of Common Worship which provides a variety of Eucharistic Prayers to meet the differing theological beliefs of different congregations.

His books, Jesus For President, The Irresistible Revolution, and Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, are gentle yet challenging introductions to a way of life that much of the Western Church has forgotten, but which, he argues, has always been central to our faith.

as well as beautiful mealtime prayers, collected from around the world and from various traditions, which alone are worth the price of the book.

Among the books, all of which either wear their contemporary paper jackets or are recent paper - backs, on the shelves that climb the walls, are displayed plastic reproductions of such things as a Tibetan prayer wheel, African masks, a cross or two, a grinning gargoyle, several Indian - temple loving couples, and (standing in a corner) a crosier.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

Luther created a new genre, the catechism, which brought together in a single book the traditional material covered by baptismal catechesis: the Ten Commandments, the Apostles» Creed and the Lord's Prayer, plus teaching on the sacraments.

In 1951 a University of Kiel professor named Theodor Wilhelm published the prayer in a book of his own under the pseudonym Friedrich Oetinger, which launched a German tradition of attributing it to the 18th - century Swabian Pietist F. C. Oetinger; Catholic - artifact versions of the prayer attributed it to St. Francis of Assisi; Hallmark cashed in on the prayer; and it was immortalized on thousands of plaques featuring Albrecht Dürer's praying hands.

It would be invidious to mention the names of popular books which commend prayer and set forth techniques of praying, but are so alien to the whole Christian position — although written sometimes by ministers of Christian bodies — that it is astounding that they are accepted so readily by people who profess and call themselves Christians.

The Service of Holy Baptism, in the Book of Common Prayer, states this admirably when it requires that the sponsors in Baptism promise, on behalf of the child, that the newly baptized Christian shall «learn the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments,» and describes these, among other things, as being that which «a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health.»

The beautiful opening of the Third Eucharistic Prayer of the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980) draws its inspiration from the Eucharistic prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third cePrayer of the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980) draws its inspiration from the Eucharistic prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third ceprayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third century.

And these good ladies had items in the newspapers and on the internet, the Daily Telegraph announcing that: «Hilary Cotton, chair of Women And The Church (Watch), the group which led the campaign for female bishops, said the shift away from the traditional patriarchal language of the Book of Common Prayer in already at an «advanced» stage in some quarters».

I recall the reaction of a priest friend to a text setting out the conservative version of Anglicanism, one which espouses fidelity to the monarchy, to the liturgical tradition of the Book of Common Prayer, and to the rural pastoral tradition, of such great comfort to the people.

Instead Newman's devotion found expression in vocal prayers (such as the Litanies) and in themore formal Meditations which make up a large part of this book.

These prayers remind us of the deep inner life which sustained Newman on his pilgrim journey, and together with the illustrated biography from Gracewing, this book will surely be welcomed by all devotees of Newman's life and thought.

The classical expression of this is in the General Thanksgiving, which was included in the 1662 revision of the Prayer Book.

In this context we can appreciate the contribution of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which is bringing into the Church the influence of the Sarum rite in the Book of Common Prayer for an English Evensong now to be completed byBenediction.

The remainder of this book will be given to further and detailed development of the definition just suggested, to the ways in which we may pray in words and in thought, to the place of prayer in public worship and above all in the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper — which all Christians save the Quakers and the Salvation Army know to be the central act of public worship, however much they may sometimes slight that importance in church practice — and finally to see how it all «fits in» — how faith and action are related to, and find fulfillment in, prayer both private and public.

(Here, for example, is a case, from Starbuck's book, in which a «sensory automatism» brought about quickly what prayers and resolves had been unable to effect.

Before writing his books on prayer and hope, Ellul had already published Propaganda (1962), which the present volume complements and updates in several respects.

It was during Edward VI's short reign (1547 - 53) that Thomas Cramner produced the Prayer Book (1549, revised 1552), which is the lasting memorial to his learning and liturgical skill.

One answer to this question lies in Shakespeare's use of a book with which most of us now have only a passing acquaintance, but which profoundly shaped his view of both this world and the other - worldly: the Book of Common Prabook with which most of us now have only a passing acquaintance, but which profoundly shaped his view of both this world and the other - worldly: the Book of Common PraBook of Common Prayer.

An Act of Uniformity was passed which, among other features, restored with modifications the second edition of the Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI.

Liturgical worship, which follows a set pattern or structure in a prayer book led by professional clergy, is the basic diet of mainline denominations.

Is the child's prayer «Now I lay me down to sleep...» from which the book's title is taken comparable to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or is the vision of the latter best measured against Dante's Divine Combook's title is taken comparable to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or is the vision of the latter best measured against Dante's Divine ComBook of the Dead, or is the vision of the latter best measured against Dante's Divine Comedy?

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.

For those who are interested in the «case» that can be made for prayer, I may refer to another book of mine, God's Way with Men (Judson Press, 1970), in which I discussed the relationship between God and men and argued for the validity of prayer as central in that relationship.

In other books, those of us who are process thinkers have endeavored to work out a theological or religious position, an interpretation of Christian prayer and worship, and a moral attitude, which will take account of what we have learned but which will also be in genuine continuity with the past we have inherited.

For purposes of American audiences, we do not have to think about a third creed which is found in the Prayer Books of all the other branches of the Anglican Communion, the Athanasian Creed, which has the misfortune of being neither a creed nor by Athanasius.

Here are two prayer books, both pocket - sized and attractively presented, which will be a good introduction to the saint and are a realistic way to use him as a guide in prayer.

A document of at least semiofficial status, the reply of the English Archbishops to Leo XIII, describes the Prayer Book service in terms which suggest the point of departure of modern liturgical piety: