"practice of prayer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it any time you are discussing the activity of praying. For example, "I believe that a regular practice of prayer is important for spiritual development."
This history indicates that the district intended to preserve the practice of prayer before football games...
He added: "But the religious liberty protected by the Constitution is abridged when the state affirmatively sponsors the particular practice of prayer".
Eremitic (solitary) monasticism, favouring the personal and individual practice of prayer and asceticism, often competed with cenobitic (communal) monastic life, in which prayer was mainly liturgical and corporate.
On Saturday, two plenary events will highlight the multiple registers of engagement occasioned by new, transdisciplinary research on the practice of prayer.
In many religions the practice of prayer requires the use of certain objects, among which rosaries (strings of beads) and chaplets (circular strings of beads) occupy an important place in the popular piety.
Eastern Orthodox Christians, while upholding the ancient Christian practice of prayer for the dead, generally reject the Roman Catholic understanding, as well as the penitential system to which it is tied, as unwarranted innovations.
Here he introduced the practices of prayer, private confession, and common discipline described in his book Gemeinsames Leben (1939; Life Together).
Students in these groups represent a variety of religious traditions, to ensure all students experience Christian practices of prayer and devotion other than their own.
Field is a devout Catholic, something that he reported helped him deal with his chronic health issues and depression, especially the spiritual practices of prayer and devotion to the Virgin Mary as expressed by Our Lady of Guadalupe.
It consisted of a total withdrawal from society, normally in the desert, and the constant practice of mental prayer.
Most faiths commend prayer and similar meditative practices to their followers, and most believers find solace, peace and even joy in the practice of regular prayer.
