Sentence examples for intense prayer from inspiring English sources

They lost the aspect of the intense prayer".

I eventually discovered that these experiences were associated with intense prayer practice.

Intense prayer from all around the world surrounded the election of Pope Francis I.

The Vatican said that Francis decided to institute the commission "after intense prayer and mature reflection".

"We are close to you, dear brothers and sisters, in a particularly intense prayer," he said.

As this is happening the Pontiff recites an intense prayer, and the boy's mouth drops wide open and he exhales sharply, Italian press reports added this morning.

The rest are laypeople who practice an intense daily prayer regimen that they believe imbues their jobs and family lives with Catholic spirit.

Fermor was first drawn to French monasteries as intense communities where prayer could be as ecstatic as the spiritual possession he'd seen among the Caribbean practitioners of Voodoo.

The first Sunday of Lent is a fitting start to his period of more intense fasting and prayer in the Orthodox Church.

More generally, the modern term mystic has been applied to those spiritual teachers and writers who have reached intense levels of contemplative prayer through their identification with the person of Christ (St. Francis of Assisi) or through a disciplined practice of meditation (St. Ignatius of Loyola) or through other forms of contemplative practice.

Goldman's Mart�� is indeed wildly popular with his female students, one of whom, a former novice in a convent abolished by the liberals, is able, through prayer and intense meditation, to transport herself from one place to another — an ability that provides an apt metaphor for Goldman's sense of both a country at a cultural crossroads and an exotic lost world.