Sentences with phrase «prayer service for»

Troy's mother - in - law Freda suffers from Acute Myeloid Leukemia, and his family requested a prayer service for their stricken matriarch.

I also attended the mosque prayer service for the first time and wrote about my experience.

Carter led the congregation in a prayer service for Whitney Houston on Sunday morning, «petitioning the Lord on behalf of Whitney's daughter, her mother, and the entire Houston Family,» according to a statement on the church's website.

Florida megachurch pastor Joel Hunter offered a blessing at the private prayer service for «Barack Hussein Obama» the morning of his inauguration, asking that those surrounding the President would place their hands on him.

It has been host to the funerals of numerous presidents and of inaugural prayer services for four presidents, including Barack Obama.

Not exact matches

Non-technical: say a prayer, one of gratitude for the service you have been selected to perform.

Today is an «Evangelical Day of Prayer and Action for Immigration Reform» in Washington, D.C., with many evangelical luminaries, and even more evangelical activists, hosting advocacy worship services and lobbying Congress for immigration legislation that would legalize the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S..

My biggest cultural shock came when Kirk and I returned to Ankaase for a prayer service.

Ricard told Catholic News Service that it is proper for the church to encourage prayers for Martin and his family and Zimmerman and his family - «his life will never be the same either.»

Lucas wants to start his own cleaning company, and during the announcements following a recent service at Trinity House of Prayer, Lucas asks for the microphone, holds it up to his machine and slowly types out the message that if anyone is looking for work, he's hiring.

Referring to the emergency services, Mr Grimason added: «It's important that we keep them in our prayers as well for their safety and for their energy levels.

- Pope to Mass of millions: Get out of church — What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil — Massive crowd attends prayer service with pope — Why millennials are leaving the church — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near site pope

Though he was a student of Scripture, Wigglesworth is probably best known for his role as a faith - healer — employing methods of prayer and deliverance in his services that were sometimes controversial.

For Jews, a prayer over wine is part of the sabbath service, sabbath meals, all religious holidays and special religious events such as weddings and circumcisions.

Not only does Glick, who lives in Jerusalem, stand at the front of synagogues and sing solemn prayers on Rosh Hashana, but he is an EMT for United Hatazalah, a volunteer emergency service.

At the interfaith prayer service held in today for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing (including Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University, where I teach), President Barack Obama was once again called upon to play the pastor - in - chief at a moment of national tragedy.

During the Friday service, half the congregation stood for the prayers and half remained seated, and each side shouted at the other, insisting that theirs was the true tradition.

Each day there will be morning and night prayer, Midday Mass, a Reconciliation Service with Exposition, Benediction and the chance for individual Confession.

For many the use of the set services of the Christian Church, as found in the traditional prayer books, can be of great value.

The mosques are the centers for prayer, teaching, and service in the Muslim world and are recognized as the distinctive symbol of Islam even though they differ considerably from country to country.

They provide psalms, prayers and readings for four services every day.

And something should be said about the use of the old set services of the Church — for Lutherans and Episcopalians that means the reading of Morning and Evening Prayer, or Matins and Evensong.

Someone told me about their church holding a Blue Christmas service for those in their community who are grieving and longing at Christmas, unable to fathom the joy perhaps, and so they make space for prayer, for communion, for quiet, to hold each other, to light candles for their grief together for just an evening in the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the bright tinsel.

In a prayer service that I attend weekly for my teenagers and those of the community, I am chastened regularly when I find these words in my mouth:

I thought: He is «not now that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth,» when, for several years, he accompanied his old blind father to the synagogue and, for an hour, whispered in his ear every word of the prayers the old man did not know by heart, then going off to another service to fulfill his own duty to pray.

Another prayer suggestion said: «Give thanks for our leaders, our security forces and our emergency services.

You can not engage them to your service with prayers and candles, as you might hire a man for the harvest.

In the service of holy matrimony in the Book of Common Prayer, the basis for most Protestant marriage services, «love» is considered only one of the necessary requisites for marriage.

After the service is over there will be an opportunity for people to come into the cathedral to say a prayer and light a candle.»

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.

Prayer for health should not begin when sickness strikes, but should pervade one's total life in terms of prayer for a right use of the body and the right dedication of its powers to God's sePrayer for health should not begin when sickness strikes, but should pervade one's total life in terms of prayer for a right use of the body and the right dedication of its powers to God's seprayer for a right use of the body and the right dedication of its powers to God's service.

Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the Rev. Billy Graham, who was disinvited from a Pentagon prayer service on the National Day of Prayer because of his Christian views and vprayer service on the National Day of Prayer because of his Christian views and vPrayer because of his Christian views and values?

The short prayer — which you can read here — offers prayers for the country's leaders, service members, first responders, politicians and for unity.

As we seek in prayer to lay ourselves before God for his service, duty becomes clearer, and staying - power is given for the slow, hard steps that must be taken to fashion a peaceful world.

This question of identity can be important According to the 1928 Church of England Prayer Book, the service of Burial was not to be used for the unbaptized.

If the Christian faith, the fellowship of the church, the significance of prayer and worship, the challenge of Christian service are important for that large segment of the population that fall in the range between 80 and 120, then it is important for these two youngsters who happen to be above and below that group.

Then, we can come together as Christians for times of celebration, prayer, and teaching, but we probably shouldn't call such times «service.»

which began on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 and gathers together in various physical locations for: exaltation of God by glorifyinig Him through a life lived in worship edifcation of one another through teaching, fellowship, and prayer evangelism of the world through social and spiritual acts of service

Rio de Janeiro (CNN)- A massive crowd packed Copacabana Beach late Saturday for a prayer service with Pope Francis.

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.»

And at the same time, service members were e-mailing the group thanking them for their music and asking for prayers.

Most of us think of a building where Christians meet every Sunday for an organized, pre-planned service of music, prayer, and sermon by a paid pastor.

[30] Conforming to the New Thought belief that «consciousness is elementally creative, reciprocates thoughts, and thereby shapes all manifestation,» AGNT affirms «the community of all life is sacred; our practices of meditation and prayer enhance a worldview promoting reverence for, and service to humanity and planet earth.

One of the church's former pastors, Mark Collins, returned to help with the service, and told The L.A. Times that the church had reached out to the gunman's family, saying that they would be praying for them: «Our hearts and prayers go out to his family.»

Appalachian and Southern Christians often told stories about staggering into church and walking forward during the altar call to say the «sinner's prayer» during revival services that would often last for several weeks.

The participant would be urged to attend worship services, participate in Bible studies, meet with a mentor for spiritual guidance, go to prayer meetings, participate in meditation, and go to special retreats, with spirituality as the prime goal of the meetings (pp. 314 - 15).

Several presidents of evangelical organizations made the list for the inauguration prayer service held today at the National Cathedral, reported Religion News Service: Gabriel Salguero of the National Latino Evangelservice held today at the National Cathedral, reported Religion News Service: Gabriel Salguero of the National Latino EvangelService: Gabriel Salguero of the National Latino Evangelical...

@prayer changes nothing: i know the church is praying that people don't wake up and stop giving them money... lol prayer doesn't work; number of people going to religious service is declining, so less money for their coffers.

Others observe only two or three prayers and make the rest up at home and others go to the mosque only for the Friday service, but the largest group go to the mosque only for the two great festivals.

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.