In corporate acts of worship, fixed prayers, confessions, ritual acts, processions, and participation by empathy in the acts of the leader of worship all enrich the individual's own worship.
The show dealt with child abuse, rape, and other forms of damage, which, in Perry's vision, could be fixed by prayer and by faith, and it had a strong gospel-music element.
During a showdown with the Catholic Church in the late 1960s, Anita Caspary and the Los Angeles order she led, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, were cast as "rebel nuns" for progressive reforms that included abandoning the nun's habit and suspending a fixed time for prayer.
Much of evangelicalism still functions with a spiritual-secular divide, as if the physical concerns of this world can be neatly fixed with worship and prayer.
A Spaniard resident in Rome, Miguel de Molinos, author of the popular Spiritual Guide (1675), was condemned for his doctrine of the "One Act," that is, the teaching that the will, once fixed on God in contemplative prayer, cannot lose its union with the divine.
He proposes to me a limit of 5,000 people at one time for Rosh Hashanah, who would be bused in, pray, and then be bused out, to allow for another group of pilgrims to get their prayer fix without overburdening the city's infrastructure.
In the late 13th century, St. Nicephorus the Hesychast produced an even more precise "method of prayer," advising novices to fix their eyes during prayer on the "middle of the body," in order to achieve a more total attention, and to "attach the prayer to their breathing".
In place of prayer rugs, cheap towels had been crudely fixed to one another and the floor by an industrial hot-glue gun.
Congress declared a National Day of Prayer in 1952, and in 1988 it fixed the event's observance to the first Thursday in May.
They think that by simply saying prayers all of their problems will be fixed.
There is the reality of the tens of thousands of prayers I sent to God, asking to be fixed.
