Sentence examples for period of prayer from inspiring English sources

The cardinal would undergo "a period of prayer and penance".

Its setting was some situation of national calamity, when a period of prayer, fasting, and penitence would be observed.

Why have we been waiting so long?" The Vatican ordered O'Brien to undertake an unspecified period of "prayer and penance".

But once Ratzinger was Pope Benedict XVI, he consigned Maciel to a period of prayer and penitence and began a thorough re-evaluation of his order.

The four men whose accusations of sexual misconduct led to the dramatic resignation of Britain's leading Catholic cleric as archbishop have attacked a Vatican announcement last week that he will leave the country for a period of "prayer and penance".

A: A Vatican spokesman said yesterday that: "When renovation work on the monastery of cloistered nuns inside the Vatican is complete, the Holy Father will move there for a period of prayer and reflection".

Yet his life in Rome was one of extreme asceticism and solitude: a breakfast of warm milk, extended periods of prayer, a walk in the gardens during which he required not to see another soul, sleep at last in an iron-frame bed.

Cloistered monks and nuns follow monastic tradition and chant the Divine Office (specific sung prayers at intervals from daybreak to bedtime... like six to seven separate periods of prayer.) Visitors are welcome (generally for mid-day and Vespers).

After a period of intense prayer, he composed the Spiritual Exercises, a guidebook to convert the heart and mind to a closer following of Jesus Christ.

His second imprisonment lasted two years, and when he was released, in 1948, he entered a period of seclusion, prayer, and fasting in a small mud building in the courtyard next to his in-laws' house.

In Jewish tradition, each person's fate is written for the coming year on Rosh Hashana and sealed on Yom Kippur after the "Days of Awe," the 10-day period of repentance, prayer and requests for a good new year.