Sentence examples for sacred reading from inspiring English sources

The Rev. Stan Gumula of Mepkin Abbey said in a statement late Wednesday that pressure from PETA made it difficult for the monks to live a quiet life of prayer, work and sacred reading.

They attend church services six times a day and spend hours in solitary prayer, contemplation and sacred reading.

The course, called Praying the Scriptures, is based on what is known as the Lectio Divina, or "sacred reading", which is a method of reading the scriptures used by the Roman Catholic Church.

If you have a Tarot deck of cards, place them on the altar you've created and do a sacred reading for each other.

"Of course," she added, "it's also sacred newspaper reading time".

"In referring to those who went through the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Japanese tended to shy away from the term "survivors," because in its focus on being alive it might suggest some slight to the sacred dead". Read more.

"This just confirms the anti-historical mental makeup of the Albanian terrorists and historically locates them in the period of savages when simply nothing sacred existed," read a statement from the interior ministry.

Small rooms were filled with wood smoke, incense and young shaven-headed novices reading sacred texts, butter lamps lighting the gloom.

Mr. Rubenstein said he had donated the Torah to Central Synagogue "so its congregants could have the sacred experience of reading Scripture from a scroll that had survived the Holocaust".

He began each morning with a sacred rite of reading his newspapers, drinking coffee and scratching the bellies of his beloved Portuguese water dogs, Sunny and Splash, on the front porch of his Cape Cod house overlooking Nantucket Sound.

By almost every measure of religiosity — attending worship, reading sacred texts and prayer — evangelical scientists claim higher levels of observance than evangelicals in general.