Sentence examples for a brief prayer from inspiring English sources

Let us say a brief prayer for the crazies and the emotionally overwrought of the world.

An imam was in attendance, and the church's pastor, Laurie Wurm, led a brief prayer service.

He said a brief prayer and told the warden he was ready.

Bach at One events are framed as services, including a brief prayer and a reading of poems.

Their schedule included a brief prayer followed by up to two rounds of morning balloting from the 115 Cardinals.

Maybe I thought about eight years of bombs and blood, maybe I sighed, maybe I said a brief prayer for the dead.

Say a simple and brief prayer, introducing them to it as a practice.

The remains were then carried across 30th Street to the white tent, where they were received with a preacher's brief prayer and then stored while others worked to try to attach a name to them.

The format has been tweaked slightly to make the concert feel more like a service; in addition to the usual brief prayer and now a Lenten reading, an Offertory hymn has been added, with the audience encouraged to sing as a congregation.

Mr. Dargulin, whose white shirt was stained with blood, said he was able to recite a brief Jewish prayer, "Hear Oh Israel," some 200 times before the shooting stopped.

In August, three members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail on charges of hooliganism and inciting religious hatred, months after they performed a brief "punk prayer" against President Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow's main Orthodox cathedral, a case that attracted global attention.