When you're not religious, you lose the crutch the words "You're in my prayers" offers.
It had brief prayers offered by lay people in many of the archdiocese's languages.
There will be prayers offered by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterians, Sikhs, Catholics, Methodists and Greek Orthodox worshipers.
During my teens, two members of my parents' congregation died of cancer, despite all the prayers offered up on their behalf.
It arose when a Mormon family and a Catholic family brought a lawsuit objecting to the Christian prayers offered by chaplains at school events.
She had seen illiterate mullahs sell good-luck charms and visitors who were convinced that prayers offered in the shrine were bound to come true.
Because dead spirits reputedly informed the god of all good and evil deeds within his jurisdiction, it was popularly believed that devout prayers offered in Cheng Huang's temple would be liberally rewarded.
But with the Brisbane River predicted to peak at 4am today, the attention of most Australians was on the Queensland capital, with prayers offered up for the safety of its two million residents.
After a weekend of huge plays, slashing runs by quarterbacks, Hail Mary prayers offered and answered, and enough momentum swings to cause vertigo, the question lingering from the N.F.L.'s weekend of thrills is this: Can anyone stop these guys?
This is the perfect sequence for prayers offered here.
