About 100 people stood on the pavement, the silence broken only by the bishop's short prayer and quiet sobs from Duggan's mother.
Since then I've learned that most major airports have these little prayer or quiet rooms.
"This should be a day of prayer and quiet reflection," he said.
Kennedy's speech was itself a prayer, a quiet plea for a shared understanding.
By Jeff Shesol April 4, 2018 Kennedy's speech in Indianapolis was a prayer, a quiet plea for a shared understanding.
Kennedy described prayers as something like mood music for politicians: The principal audience for these invocations is not, indeed, the public but lawmakers themselves, who may find that a moment of prayer or quiet reflection sets the mind to a higher purpose and thereby eases the task of governing.
At a recent Friday prayer, the quiet streets around Tehran University became rallying points for clusters of conservative worshippers, many of them wearing the characteristic untucked shirts of the vast paramilitary organisation known as the baseej, which has carried out much of the thuggery against opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was reinstalled as president last month.
As Nelson Pike (1992) notes, this tradition has commonly differentiated three varieties of experience of God: those associated with the "prayer of quiet," the "prayer of union," and "rapture," in order of increasing intimacy of acquaintance with God.
This is a simple practice you can do daily (like prayer, meditation, quiet reflection, affirmation, etc).
Facilities available to staff at the Doughnut include a 600-seat restaurant, shops, a gym, and a prayer or quiet room.
