You will have a blast; it's not ONLY prayers, prayers, prayers but it's about talking and socializing with friends and family.
The next day they dress you in beautiful clothing with pearls and gold and things your orisha likes, and there are big parties with drums and singing, with prayers, prayers and more prayers.
The steep trail up the mountain is punctuated by clusters of prayer flags, prayer wheels, and prayer mills, where tiny rivulets are harnessed to turn a prayer wheel and send the jewel at the heart of the lotus, Om Mani Padme Hum, downstream to the masses in India and Bangladesh.
This should be a time of reflection and prayer -- prayer for our soldiers, prayer for our enemies and for our leaders that the decisions that they must make be measured, proportionate and focused responses to the all-too-real threats faced by free people everywhere.
Each book is a prayer bead on a string, and each prayer is a secular, circumspect prayer, a prayer and a protest and a charm against encroaching night.
And in spite of this young man's attempt destroy the sanctity of prayer, we need prayer -- prayer that is active, prayer that is hopeful, prayer that is unceasing.
Praying the Isha prayer, the night prayer, and the Fajr prayer, the prayer at dawn, in congregation is important as is every minute in between.
Francis offered his own prayer, entitled "Prayer for Remembrance," followed by prayers for peace from leaders from the Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh communities.
Praying for an hour can seem difficult but if you break it up into shorter prayers, including silent prayer, led prayer, read prayer, large group prayer and small group prayer then you have broken it into smaller pieces.
"I said my prayers, said my prayers again, said my prayers again, and we were driving and driving, and finally I said to myself, 'Damn it, how long can I keep this up?' " he said.
