Sentence examples for an opening prayer from inspiring English sources

During an opening prayer, he asked for guidance to root out violence, bigotry and racism.

Everyone fell silent for an opening prayer, and then one of the Badakhshanis stood up to speak.

"We come here to acknowledge that emotional depression robs one of hope," said the Rev. Karl Travis in an opening prayer.

A soft-spoken bishop from Bangladesh leads an opening prayer, and Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson — a major force behind the encyclical — delivers the first keynote.

Early on a recent Monday, the 16-year-old with a 3.7 G.P.A.  was at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hyde Park, offering an opening prayer for six classmates and two teachers.

At that New York crusade, Graham invited Martin Luther King, Jr., to the platform to lead an opening prayer, introducing him as a leader of "a great social revolution going on in the United States today".

I know it's difficult when you start talking about denominations and different beliefs, but I think there is a way for us to have a non-denominational opening prayer when the opportunity is available to let people know there is a God.

Jeffress, a Southern Baptist preacher, delivered the opening prayer during a ceremony celebrating the U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem on Monday.

From the moment the first notes of Mr. Iyer's flute drifted out like smoke through the air in the opening prayer, a hushed quiet settled over the theater, as if everyone in the audience was leaning in.

Nearly five months before that Christmas party, the chaplain of the Senate, the Rev. Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the opening prayer for a rare Sunday session.

The shooting immediately drew national attention because the pastor had delivered the opening prayer at a Ted Cruz campaign event just 24 hours prior.