In Prospect today, the masses at St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, where the Beaudoins worshipped, were devoted to prayers and sermons in memory of the family.
We were climbing toward another pass, and leaving behind the world of those devoted to prayer and meditation.
Because each convent of Poor Clares is largely autonomous, practices have varied greatly, but generally the Poor Clares are regarded as the most austere women's orders of the Roman Catholic church, being devoted to prayer, penance, contemplation, and manual work and usually adopting the strictest enclosure, severe fasts, and other austerities.
Here, Mass attendance remains very strong, and crowds come to a place where they find a religious community devoted to prayer, to sharing of resources, to solidarity with the poor, to offering sanctuary to immigrants.
"Spirituality and the work for justice are entirely inseparable... .. Properly speaking, "nuns" are cloistered women devoted to prayer and isolated work while "sisters" -- like Farrell and most women who live in community under vows of chastity, poverty and obedience -- work in the world as part of their ministry.
To celebrate the revelation of the Quran, Muslims devote special prayers and try to find time to reread it and to recommit to its teaching and its commandments.
Rogation Days, in the Roman Catholic church, festivals devoted to special prayers for the crops; they comprise the Major Rogation (Major Litany) on April 25 and the Minor Rogations Minor Litanyy) on the three days before Ascension Day (40th day after Easter).
The gentlemen raised their hats, and the ladies bowed their heads, and for a few moments the time was devoted to universal prayer.
