I said my morning prayers, putting on my tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) and tefillin (leather prayer boxes worn on the head and arm).
An exhibit of the relics of St. Thérèse de Lisieux last year attracted throngs, for example, and a book of prayer put together by Benedictine monks in County Limerick was a best seller.
She continued: "Women pray separately because the positions that prayer puts us in are very distracting.
Living a worldly life during the day, he reportedly spent his evenings in vigils and prayer, putting into practice the writings of two authors Marcus Eremita and Diadochos of Photiki that were given to him by his spiritual father.
An old Christian prayer puts it this way: "You that do truly and earnestly repent of your sins [i.e., your wrong doings], and are in love and charity with your neighbor, draw near with faith".
So she created a chemotherapy siddur, or prayer book, putting prayers written by women, photographs and messages from friends into a pocket photo album, reading it each time she received treatment.
A worshiper at a Friday Prayer service put it more bluntly.
"The rabbi said he'd go up there, say a prayer, and put some dirt," Jack said.
He went on about how Houston's shot ended Miami's season a year ago, while Carter's playground prayer merely put the Heat up, 2-1, in the four-of-seven-game series.
It was my mother who first taught me how, through prayer, to "put things in a basket and give it to God".
