Sentences with phrase «prays by candles»

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To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

Inside, the church pews are quietly filled with people praying; light comes only from the sanctuary where, lit by candles, the Blessed Sacrament is exposed.

Believers pray above a cross shaped by candles placed on jars of honey in the Church of the Blessed Virgin on February 10, 2013, during a celebration in honour of St. Haralampi, protector of the beekeepers.

I pray for candles and for lamplight, for good books and for movies, for long walks in the darkness lit only by street lights or stars.

Daniel Sanham who leads St. Johns the Evangelist Church said his church has been responding to the incident by leaving its doors open for anyone who wants to light a candle in honour of the victims and pray.

At the Easter Vigil, the priest blesses the water in the baptismal font, lowering the lighted Pascal candle into it three times while saying: «May the power of the Holy Spirit, O Lord we pray, come down through your Son into the fullness of this font...» He then holds the candle in the water while continuing ``... so that all who have been buried with Christ by baptism and death may rise again to life with him.»

Please join our candlelight community by also lighting a candle and praying at this time so our prayers have the combined strength of all of us.