The phrase "act of prayer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act or practice of praying, often in a religious or spiritual context.
Example: "The community gathered for an act of prayer to seek guidance and strength during difficult times."
Alternatives: "prayer practice" or "prayer ritual".
In any case, the sacrificial act generally precedes the verbal act of prayer.
The rosary is also used in an act of prayer and is carried by all classes of Muslims, especially pilgrims.
"I don't know what happened," said Millie Limardo, a neighbor who stood outside the building yesterday shaking her head, her hands pressed together in an act of prayer.
If sometimes especially with exceptional subjects or those with fragile nervous systems the act of prayer is accompanied by corporal phenomena (e.g., bleeding, shaking), such phenomena can accompany it without having provoked it and without explaining its deep inspiration.
The psychological explanation has the advantage of probing the subconscious, of describing the various forces that act within the psyche, but the emergence of the subconscious in the act of prayer is not the essence of prayer, since it minimizes the role of intelligence and the will.
This further indicates the dominance of the 'buffer-bonding' element of religious activity, which is more pronounced in the intimate act of prayer.
LIZ LERMAN DANCE EXCHANGE The first incarnation of "613 Radical Acts of Prayer," with a proposed six hundred and twelve more to go, comes to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
There were no such piercing revelations in Ms. Lerman's new "613 Radical Acts of Prayer: Opening Acts," performed Sunday afternoon at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on a program with "Small Dances About Big Ideas".
But while a quick ablution restores purity after taking a leak, Muslim women are essentially barred from these acts of prayer for days each month by a fact of their anatomy.
Kinds of spiritual support ranged from a simple act of personal prayer through attending regular prayer sessions to participation in specially organized prayer camps.
In fact, over the years, many, if not most, of my favorite N.H.L. players have been Swedes, Czechs, and Russians (Larionov, Fedorov, Forsberg, Datsyuk, etc).. It's the fact that they can bring forth such artistry amid the menace of an N.H.L. game that makes the mere recitation of their names an act of hockey prayer.
