Sentence examples for common worship from inspiring English sources

The life setting of the hymns was generally an occasion of common worship.

The non-Greek Carians of the interior considered themselves an indigenous people and claimed kinship with the Lydians and Mysians, with whom they shared a common worship.

For centuries, people of many faiths and ethnicities have rubbed shoulders daily here, if not always in complete harmony, then in common worship of urban life and commerce.

The acts of worship celebrate and symbolize this unity when the majority of the members of the society regularly engage in common worship.

But my favorite postmodern selection, if only for its appropriate restraint, is Derek Birdsall's "Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England" (2000), patterned after a standard book of psalms.

Worship thus involves social learning: the members of the community, through their common worship, learn how to plant, to cultivate the soil, to hunt game, to engage in warfare, to settle disputes, to relate to the various strata of the society.

They are from the rich and varied lands around the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, where in ancient times diverse cultures had in common the worship of ancestors, the skilled working of clay, and trade connections.

Other goals common to worship of all mahavidyas are: poetic speech, well-being, control of one's foes, removal of obstacles, ability to sway kings, ability to attract others, conquest over other kings and finally, moksha (salvation).

One of the most common objects of worship, whether in temples or in household worship, is the lingam, a symbol of Shiva.

Forget the Muslims, Hindus and pagans who now proliferate at Smith — the Protestants would find it impossible to agree on a common style of worship.

Dances of maidens representing tree nymphs (dryads) were especially common in Artemis' worship as goddess of the tree cult, a role especially popular in the Peloponnese.