Sentence examples for a formal prayer from inspiring English sources
As part of the Greek formula Kyrie eleison ("Lord, have mercy"), the word is used as a preliminary petition before a formal prayer and as a congregational response in the liturgies of many Christian churches.
For the Ahl-e Haqq, music transcends formal prayer as a means of sacred devotion.
Formally known as the Society of Friends, the Quakers did not believe in baptism, formal prayer and the Lord's Supper, nor did they believe in an ordained ministry.
Members of the group pray at the East Meadow site if they happen to be there at the five daily prayer times, but for formal prayer services they go elsewhere, mainly to the Islamic Center of Long Island, a mosque in Westbury.
Still, they follow the rule of St. Augustine and gather in the chapel six times daily for formal prayer.
Over the years, contemplative life wears away at the words of formal prayer like water smoothing stones, and adoring the Blessed Sacrament provides ample time for contemplation.
The group praised Allah in Arabic -- and English, a language rarely used for formal prayers.
There were no religious services or formal prayers, not even a representative clerical contingent.
You could look into getting a Christian prayer book if you like formal prayers, but explore meditating and reaching out to Jesus to see how it feels.
One form of acknowledgment might be the practice of theism — traditional religion with its rituals, sacred texts, formal prayers, proscribed and prescribed activities; but the conviction of the universe's beauty does not, says Dworkin, "suppose any god" as its ground.
