Sentence examples for individual prayers from inspiring English sources

At each service, a procession of about 50 people pauses before each grave to recite individual prayers.

Others, probably the shorter Psalms, were songs, poems, individual prayers, which is why we so often have the sense of a person moving through different stations of belief, and emerging into the light of what Herbert, in his poem "Prayer," calls "something understood".

Second, some participants felt it was important to distinguish between group and individual prayers.

In the process, they discussed several ways in which the nature and impact of group and individual prayers may differ.

After fasting all day, many men and women spend two to three hours every night reciting the chapters of the Quran in either congregational or individual prayers.

The family requests only individual private prayers.

Six times a day they meet in the chapel to recite Old Testament Psalms and standard Roman Catholic prayers, but it is contemplative life that allows individual prayer to develop subconsciously.

The court, which has jurisdiction in Alabama, Georgia and Florida, said that the Santa Fe decision did not prohibit voluntary, individual prayer, and that therefore, voluntary prayer in front of others was also permitted.

Humanism rightfully claims Pantagruel (1532; Eng. trans. Pantagruel) and Gargantua (1534; Eng. trans. Gargantua), with their celebrated giants, feasting, drinking, and discovering and proclaiming the new and better ways of learning, of the conduct of war and peace, and of the true religion, which, for Rabelais resided in individual prayer, charity, and the virtuous life.

i.e. attending masses and other religious activities, individual prayer, confession, meetings with a spiritual father, doing their cross, visiting monasteries, serving the poor, becoming a godfather or mother, following the major feasts, and so on.

Fouquet's small paintings adorn a private book used for individual prayer, while also depicting De Varie's personal devotion to the Virgin and Child.