Sentence examples for pray on behalf from inspiring English sources

This is music that springs straight from Latin American culture in its lively pulses, hot and earthy choral chants, sensuous vocal nocturnes, bright fanfares and, altogether, its expression of suffering and death in terms of carnival -- of exuberance and joy in the ability of the living to protest and pray on behalf of the departed.

Likewise, we can pray on behalf of someone who has passed on.

His father was a prominent preacher in Tulsa and he would go and speak for and pray on behalf of any prominent politicians or important public figures that came through the city.

At least two monks have been jailed for praying on behalf of self-immolators, the group said.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor is the saint to whom the local Ursuline nuns prayed on behalf of Andrew Jackson before the Battle of New Orleans.

I asked Dr. Shermer about intercessory prayer, or praying on behalf of others.

One group was asked to pray directly on behalf of the women, a second group directed its prayers to help the first group, and a third prayed for the two other groups.

Go to the barrows and pray on every brother.

Plugged In observed, "One heartwarming scene finds Esmeralda praying selflessly on behalf of the world's outcasts".

They listen to gospel music constantly, while what they call a Peace Posse of relatives and friends helps them with cooking and chores and prays on their behalf.

Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, 48, claimed that her Parkinson's symptoms had vanished the morning after her whole order prayed on her behalf, as she scribbled the Pope's name on a piece of paper.