It was an extensive collection of prayer beads -- Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Catholic -- with an explanation of how they evolved one from the other: Muslim traders brought prayer beads from Asia and adapted them to Islam; in the late 12th century, Crusaders brought them back from Constantinople to Catholic Europe, where they metamorphosed into rosary beads.
The 67-year-old said he has "not had an impulse to act out in any such way" since the third incident, insisting he addressed his actions through extensive therapy and prayer.
St Nicholas has an extensive array of prayers, merchant's marks and other symbols, but is notable for the large number of depictions of ships, at least 30, heavily concentrated in the nave towards the eastern end of the south aisle.
The proposal prompted an extensive support effort — forty-day fasts, prayer marathons, and the like — among Church leaders in California and the two other states that have similar measures, culminating in a daylong stadium rally on the weekend before Election Day.
Prayer can be as extensive as a week's retreat or as brief as a pause to ask "Where did I see the face of God today?" But we have to show up.
While it is not primarily intellectual in nature, those who hold to orthodox convictions are often doing so out of rigorous and extensive study, scholarship, practice, reflection, and prayer.
Alongside a brief inaugural poem in 1 Kings 8 12 13, an extensive (and, in its present form, later) prayer expresses the distinctively biblical view of the Temple as a vehicle through which God provided for his people's needs.
The bar's name, la Milagrosa, or the Miraculous, is a nod to the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose likeness is on the tall, flickering prayer candles perched among an extensive collection of mezcal bottles.
Extensive and rigorous research has proven that prayer has great benefits for everything from surgeries and serious illnesses, to in vitro fertilization.
Acoustics is an important factor in mosque prayer halls that had not been given extensive concern during the architectural design stages.
