What do you think accounts for this renewed interest in tradition - observing the religious calendar,
reciting daily prayers and ancient creeds, incorporating symbols into worship, etc..
Not exact matches
Wills's work is more intelligent and substantial than Carroll's, and he writes from a deep faith; he notes, not without pride, that he prays the Rosary
daily and
recites the Lord's
Prayer in Greek.
Literally it means mentioning or
reciting and is commonly used to refer to all kinds of prescribed worship — the
daily prayers, fasting, pilgrimage, almsgiving, and repeating the Word of Witness.
In other words, any school requiring students to listen to
daily Bible readings or to
recite the Lord's
Prayer or other officially endorsed
prayers is in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution and the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Another
prayer is odd, but one of my favorites: a
prayer written over 1000 years ago to be
recited after urinating or defecating to acknowledge that the body is still performing its
daily miracle.