Sentence examples for formal prayer from inspiring English sources
Formally known as the Society of Friends, the Quakers did not believe in baptism, formal prayer and the Lord's Supper, nor did they believe in an ordained ministry.
Very rarely is there a minyan, the 10 Jewish males required for formal prayer.
Still, they follow the rule of St. Augustine and gather in the chapel six times daily for formal prayer.
Over the years, contemplative life wears away at the words of formal prayer like water smoothing stones, and adoring the Blessed Sacrament provides ample time for contemplation.
As part of the Greek formula Kyrie eleison ("Lord, have mercy"), the word is used as a preliminary petition before a formal prayer and as a congregational response in the liturgies of many Christian churches.
There were no religious services or formal prayers, not even a representative clerical contingent.
They kneel before trays of bread and water, recite formal prayers and solemnly pass the communion to the congregation.
One form of acknowledgment might be the practice of theism — traditional religion with its rituals, sacred texts, formal prayers, proscribed and prescribed activities; but the conviction of the universe's beauty does not, says Dworkin, "suppose any god" as its ground.
Before the burial, formal prayers are said for the forgiveness of the dead.
The group praised Allah in Arabic -- and English, a language rarely used for formal prayers.
