Copies of the prayer to be sent round and read in several churches throughout England and Ireland.
On the bookshelf, sitting in a row, were three pristine copies of "The Prayer of Jabez," the best-selling book of advice.
But with more than 750,000 copies of the prayer book in print, in almost all of the nation's 800 Reform congregations, the passage is expected to receive unusual attention at services Tuesday and Wednesday on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
As Sister Camille distributed copies of a prayer service entitled "Grant Me a Forgiving Heart" for Mr. McVeigh and his victims, Camille Bodden, a nursing professor at Queensborough Community College, reported that she had recently talked with Joan themotherith, the mofher of the only woman who died in the Wendy's shootings in Flushing, Queens, last year.
Instead of hosting a communal prayer, representatives from Tag Meir's coalition of 48 organizations will stand near the Jaffa Gate and distribute flowers and printed copies of the prayer in multiple languages to passersby.
Second and third copies of books and prayer books were pulped.
The college has copies of the first prayer said in Congress.
Despite its place in the western imagination as a musical backwater where downtrodden workers would trade internal organs for third-generation samizdat copies of Like a Prayer, the dying days of the Soviet Union played host to a flourishing indie-rock scene.
Again, the books were the easiest – I'm an English teacher, I will always love another copy of "A Prayer for Owen Meany" – but the other stuff was hard, photos from happier times, trips we'd taken together, when our children were first born, or cards I'd saved from over the years, anniversaries and birthdays, and the (rare in the last few years) random HEY!
She often handed out copies of the "Jelly Bean Prayer," in which the red beans stood for Christ's blood, the white for grace.
